Francis Bacon
  • Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

  • Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  • Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

  • Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

  • Science is but an image of the truth.