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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.