A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up familiar with it.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.

-- Parmenides

For thinking and Being are the same.

-- Parmenides

Those who understand that things arise dependently know them to be empty.

-- Nagarjuna

Knowing is the beginning of action; action is the completion of knowing.

-- Wang Yangming

The world is my representation.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

-- Averroes