On Truth (Unsourced)

"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.” (Konrad Lorenz)

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” (Albert Einstein)

“The truth is that which works.” (John Dewey)

"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” (Isaac Newton)

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” (Niels Bohr)

“Every truth is true only up to a point. Beyond that, by way of counter-point, it becomes untruth.” (Søren Kierkegaard)

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” (Galileo Galilei)

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy)

“It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest assured with that degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.” (Aristotle)

“We can never achieve absolute truth, but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. The law of probability gives to natural and human sciences - to human experience as a whole - the unity of life we seek.” (Agnes Meyer)