Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"You must maintain your integrity at all costs."
Rosalind Franklin
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"I believe in the power of evidence."
Rosalind Franklin
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"The pursuit of truth requires patience, dedication, and an openness to being wrong."
Dorothy Hodgkin
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"The beauty of X-ray crystallography is its honesty - the crystals cannot lie."
Dorothy Hodgkin
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"Science is the most honest conversation we can have with the natural world."
Dorothy Hodgkin
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"The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr
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"The definition of truth is that it lasts, that it continues to work in new contexts."
Niels Bohr
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"The greatest challenge facing humanity is the challenge of distinguishing appearance from reality."
Niels Bohr
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"Reality is not what it appears to be."
Niels Bohr
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"The path to truth is paved with failed hypotheses."
Niels Bohr
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"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, conditions from which the poetic activity is not free."
Max Planck
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"Scientific truth is unassailable: plainly, no agency is empowered to rescind it."
Max Planck
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"Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
Max Planck
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"Truth is independent of the number of people who believe in it."
Max Planck
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"Truth cannot be manufactured or manipulated; it can only be discovered."
Max Planck
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest calling to which a human can dedicate themselves."
Max Planck
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"Science simply represents an honest attempt to find truth about the natural world."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie but the myth."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"The ladder of nature is a myth that has no basis in evolutionary theory."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"I like to have a reason for my opinions."
Enrico Fermi
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"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
Enrico Fermi
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"In science, truth is determined by evidence, not by authority or tradition."
Ernest Rutherford
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"The scientist's responsibility is to pursue truth regardless of personal convenience."
Ernest Rutherford
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"The scientific method is humanity's most reliable pathway to truth."
Ernest Rutherford
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"In science, the authority of nature supersedes all other authorities."
Ernest Rutherford
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"We must not be deceived by appearances; truth requires careful investigation."
Rosalind Franklin
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"Scientific truth is not a matter of opinion; it is a matter of evidence."
Rosalind Franklin
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"I have always believed that evidence, not emotion, should guide scientific conclusions."
Rosalind Franklin
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"Scientific truth is universal; it does not bend to prejudice or convenience."
Rosalind Franklin
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"Science is not about proving oneself right; it is about discovering what is true."
Rosalind Franklin