Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."Niels Bohr
"Two sorts of truth: profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth."Niels Bohr
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."Richard Feynman
"The idea that truth is hard to come by is nonsense. What is hard is accepting the truth once you've found it."Richard Feynman
"If you make an error and do not correct it, this is called an error of quality."Richard Feynman
"I would rather be wrong than have something that means nothing."Richard Feynman
"Being right and being honest are not always the same thing in science."Richard Feynman
"Respect for facts is the foundation of all rational thought."Richard Feynman
"I don't care what people think I should think; I care what the evidence shows."Richard Feynman
"Honesty in science means reporting what you found, not what you hoped to find."Richard Feynman
"The pursuit of truth requires more humility than the pursuit of victory."Richard Feynman
"Every scientist has the responsibility to share knowledge with the world, regardless of personal consequences."Rosalind Franklin
"The laboratory is a place where honesty must reign supreme, or all is lost."Rosalind Franklin
"The X-ray does not lie, though humans frequently misinterpret what they see."Rosalind Franklin
"The laboratory is a sanctuary for those who seek truth above all else."Rosalind Franklin
"One should never compromise scientific integrity for social acceptance."Rosalind Franklin
"The pursuit of truth in science is the most honest pursuit available to humans."Rosalind Franklin
"Science demands that we look at reality as it is, not as we wish it to be."Rosalind Franklin
"The laboratory taught me that truth is indifferent to our preferences."Rosalind Franklin
"The laboratory is where ego must be abandoned in service of truth."Rosalind Franklin
"One must not compromise on accuracy to appease comfort or convention."Rosalind Franklin
"The pursuit of molecular truth is the pursuit of ultimate honesty."Rosalind Franklin
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."Carl Sagan
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."Carl Sagan
"The universe does not care about our opinions."Carl Sagan
"We are responsible for the choices we make, and their consequences."Jane Goodall
"The truth about nature is often more extraordinary than fiction."Jane Goodall
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them everywhere and upon himself as the first."Max Planck
"The goal of science is objective truth, but that does not mean the truth itself is objective."Max Planck
"If we want to find the truth, we should look to nature because nature reveals the truth to those who truly seek it."Max Planck