"So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts [...]" (Aristotle, "Poetics", cca. 350 BC)
"The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs." (Samuel Johnson, The Idler, 1767)
"When an induction, based on observations, is made, it is not intended that it shall be accepted as a universal truth, but it is advanced as a hypothesis for further study. Additional observations are then made and the results compared with the results expected from the hypothesis. If there is more deviation between the experimental results and the computed results than can be expected from the inaccuracies of observation and measurement, the scientist discards the' hypothesis and tries to formulate another."
"Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is." (Konrad Lorenz, "On Aggression", 1963)
"While the equations represent the discernment of eternal and universal truths, however, the manner in which they are written is strictly, provincially human. That is what makes them so much like poems, wonderfully artful attempts to make infinite realities comprehensible to finite beings." (Michael Guillen, "Five Equations That Changed the World", 1995)
"Every truth - if it really is truth - presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times." (Pope John Paul II, "Encyclical Fides et Ratio", 1998)
"The passion and beauty and joy of science is that we humans have invented a process to understand the universe in a way that is true for everyone. We are finding universal truths." (Bill Nye, 2000)
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