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“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

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Rene Daumal

Rene Daumal was a French writer known for his works of surrealism and mysticism. His life was filled with exploration and adventure, with a deep interest in philosophy and religion. more

“As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'”

Ifs Men Littles Truth Lost Ability Path Clear Four He Man Theory Authority Regard Mathematics Insight Arithmetic Prologue Inquirers

Book:Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

“As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.”

Truth Earth Science Sun Moon Iron Mates Gravity Steel Centre Turtles Adamant

Book:Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition

Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition

“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.”

Ifs Done Facts Truth Belief Causes Leader Ignorance Theory Drug Disease Convince Mortality Indifferent Mischief Prescriptions Multiplying Convince Us Dissection

Author:Benjamin Rush

“Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.”

People Facts Seems Truth Science Numbers Taken Pages Concerned Enormous Fascinated Unbelievable Publication True Fact

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds”

Ifs Littles Whole Feelings Truth Opinion Prejudice Rational Comprehension Whole Truth

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.”

People Firsts Has Beens States Truth Three Next Conflict Always Believe Scientific Truth

Author:Louis Agassiz

“For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

Truth Madness Mad Hamlet 2

Author:William Shakespeare

“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.”

Knows Mean Truth Science Gentleman Paradoxical

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.”

Thinking Truth Science Certain Causes Disease Add Disagree Pasteur

Author:Louis Pasteur

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