Hans Eysenck Quotes

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Seek truth from facts.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

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

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Truth is a big concept.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

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.