The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
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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.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
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.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.