Truth Quotes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

"A scientist only has the right to make statements about those facts or phenomena that he has thoroughly investigated."

"Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it."

"What is real? It seems to me that the idea of localized, independent, physical things is merely an idea."

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle."

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position was mistaken.'"

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion."

"The truth is like a lion; you do not have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"The truth is far more wondrous than any fiction."

"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'"

"Intellectual honesty requires acknowledging the limits of our knowledge."

"Truth emerges from careful observation and critical thinking."

"Science demands evidence, not belief."

"Every action we take has consequences."

"Truth is always more powerful than deception."

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

"There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also a great truth."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

"The very fact that the totality of our sense experiences is such that by means of thinking we can lay down laws for it proves that reality is independent of us."

"Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: first, people deny it; second, they say it violates the Bible; third, they say they believed it all along."

"Truth and clarity must always accompany each other."

"In seeking the truth we must ask ourselves questions we have never asked before."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

"I am not going to sit here and pretend to be something I'm not."

"The test of all knowledge is experiment."

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, if it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

"The truth is far more interesting and beautiful than any fiction."

"The probability of something impossible occurring is zero."

"Facts are hard to come by, but they're worth whatever effort they take."