John Cornforth Quotes

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

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

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are honest and true about things, it helps things to make sense, and it cuts out a lot of the fat that gets in the way and causes for the misunderstandings that I believe lead to violence and... dysfunction, etc.

The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Truth is a great flirt.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Truth is a big concept.

Truth is the best defense.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Truth implies meaning.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

I'm on a search for the truth.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Time is on the side of truth.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.