Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

If we don’t go, we don’t know.

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I keep six honest serving men.