Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

History consists of facts attested to by evidence.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Confronted by an unknowable, historians demand evidence, witnesses, corroboration.

I believe in things that have proof.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

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.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

Everything that people say is testable.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

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.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

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

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

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.