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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

— Linus Pauling

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

— P. T. Barnum

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Tim Hunt

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

— William Masters

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

— Dan Shechtman

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.

— John Polanyi

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

— Dean Ornish

Science is but an image of the truth.

— Francis Bacon

✗Opposing Perspectives

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

— Brian Schmidt