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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.

— Stanley B. Prusiner

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✓Similar Perspectives

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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.

— John Charles Polanyi

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

— Seth Lloyd

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

— Gurjeet Singh

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

— Stephen Hawking

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

— Ralph Cudworth

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

— James Rothman

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

— Karl A. Menninger

✗Opposing Perspectives

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

— Clifford Stoll