William Hamilton Quotes

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

I deal in facts.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Facts are better than dreams.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

I always admired Niels Bohr for uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one in the possession of definite truth.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.