It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Live truth instead of professing it.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.