If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. John Burroughs
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. Winston Churchill
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. Cleveland Amory
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. Thomas A. Edison
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas H. Huxley
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. Konrad Lorenz
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? Nagarjuna
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. John Weiss