Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science is not wisdom.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is nothing but perception.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Our perceptions are limited. Our brains distort the truth. So do we ever know what is real? That is the mission of science. To probe deep into the massive puzzle box of nature to find its ultimate truths.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

I like to open people's eyes.

Use all of your senses.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.