The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
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Related It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth... GEORGE SANTAYANA Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif... WALTER MARTIN These statements are false and not only are they false, they're just malicious lies ANTONIO DAVIS All general statements are false. UNKNOWN Administrator McCarthy committed perjury and made several false statements at multiple congressional... PAUL GOSAR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I think many of the statements in there are false. ANDREW FASTOW I don't mean to minimize the crime of perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice. Prosecu... PAUL ROTHSTEIN Any article or any statements about the mayor reaching a medical decision are just false. The mayor ... BRUCE TEITELBAUM False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v... CHARLES DARWIN If the door bell rings and you go to open the door and the phone rings at the same time and you end ... APURVA GAGLANI False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news ADRIENNE RICH False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ADRIENNE RICH Get me a real chair JENNIFER A. NIELSEN If he put us in dresses, we wouldn't suddenly become women JENNIFER A. NIELSEN I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us. JENNIFER A. NIELSEN A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all. JENNIFER A. NIELSEN By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may wel... WILLIAM BLAKE Rather than sitting back and letting false statements be published without challenge, I believe it i... DONALD TRUMP I don't know why this lady would do it (make false statements), but there are examples of it all the... LES ROBINSON The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANT The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may ... NIELS BOHR The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... NIELS BOHR The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... NEILS BOHR The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for t... BARRY UNSWORTH Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all differ... JOE CHESHIRE For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; ins... BIBLE A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the... SIR ISAAC NEWTON A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the... ISAAC NEWTON Many a false step has been made standing still FORTUNE COOKIE It is a sad day in the history of a public company when its best argument is that it previously file... GREG TAXIN The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... NIELS BOHR We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made. DAVID HOUSTON You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?" "Can you do i... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN You stole it from the master." "Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back i... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN It's preferred that, if in fact there are additional statements made to authorities [about a alleged... TIFFANY ANDERSON It's no statement. It's just another game. Statements won't be made until the playoffs. RASHEED WALLACE It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and idea... NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements ... LINDSEY GRAHAM He has made a number of statements to police, but the (Huntley) hearing will be about the statements... BROOKS BAKER The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputatio... GERALDO RIVERA Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world w... SAI BABA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. R. K. NARAYAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER These statements are false, and not only are they false, they're just malicious lies, ... They're ve... ANTONIO DAVIS It's possible something Ellis said out of court might be used not only against him but Mr. DeLay. Th... GEORGE DIX Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false. ANTHONY D. ROMERO The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are stil... TRAVIS WALTON We are concerned that false police statements may have tainted hundreds of cases of people arrested ... CHRISTOPHER DUNN [There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and inte... BILL CLINTON We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more disso... BARACK OBAMA Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. LEONARDO DA VINCI Labor started it and in fact I do agree with some statements that has been made and branded as racis... JALE BABA This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury conv... JACOB FRENKEL I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while rem... ISAIAH BERLIN Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that... BARRY LONG The ANSWER Coalition, the NCAA is not only disappointed with the ruling, ... but we condemn the city... BRIAN BECKER The message we want to send is that if you engage in fraud, if you participate in providing false st... ALBERTO R. GONZALES This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of cr... JONAS SALK Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... , JAMES RESTON, GALILEO, A LIFE, HARPERCOLLINS, NY, 1994, P 461. The Attorney General's office investigated allegations that sales representatives for Understanding ... ATTORNEY MCKENNA The Attorney General's office investigated allegations that sales representatives for Understanding ... ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB MCKENNA Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ... ARISTOTLE Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ... ARISTOTLE If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon rea... CALVIN COOLIDGE This action only confirms our suspicions that we are on the right track and getting very close to th... KEN JOHNSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON People demand the truth! But when the truth is told, they demand it's false. JASON L. TREAT This was a complicated case that involved a number of statements. We presented statements to the pro... JOSEPH NEWPORT We were very pleased with the jury's verdict and after talking to the jury we were even more pleased... ANDREW WHITE In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the test... SIMON GREENLEAF Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and li... GREGORY KUTZ Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the prole... GEORGE ORWELL The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimit... JOHN BRADSHAW False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v... CHARLES DARWIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patria... NAWAL EL SAADAWI If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated pr... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Koenig would be right in the thick of all public statements made to the investing public. KIRBY BEHRE I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. J. K. ROWLING Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that... ELTON TRUEBLOOD The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to th... PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The firefighters are telling us that they are actually disgusted at the way the FBU has made these s... MARK YATES As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's ... HANNAH ARENDT That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. RUMI In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false informati... UMBERTO ECO Without the human my friend, truth has no value whatsoever. So, do not be blinded by the false glory... ABHIJIT NASKAR Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high... JOHN KEATS
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SAYERS How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the... DOROTHY L. SAYERS There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, ho... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c... DOROTHY L. 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GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag... GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday. MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes... GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ... GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt... GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co... JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ... JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th... JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti... JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi... JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an... DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t... DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries... DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy. DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak... DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi... DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and... DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle. DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th... DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa... DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing - A cherry bough gone white with Spring - But what I think, Ho... DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con... DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ... DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap... DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of... DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER