“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?
A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth?
A. I am.”
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
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Bennington College address (1970)
Context: I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 113.

Concepts

Source: On the propensity to interpret something as true in “Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/01/malcolm-gladwell-interview-talking-to-strangers-apolitical in The Guardian (2019 Sep 1)

“This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.”
Das ist eine klassische journalistische Behauptung. Sie ist zwar richtig, aber sie ist nicht die Wahrheit.
ARD-Tagesthemen (February 22, 1994)

Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 3
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