ABSTRACT
Bohr, Niels The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Bronowski, Jacob We cannot define truth in science until we move from fact to law. And within the body of laws in tum, what impresses us as truth is the orderly coherence of the pieces. They fit together like the characters of a great novel, or like the words of a poem. Indeed, we should keep that last analogy by us always, for science is a language, and like a language it defines its parts by the way they make up a meaning. Every word in a sentence has some uncertainty of definition, and yet the sentence defines its own meaning and that of its words conclusively. It is the intemal unity and coherence of science which gives it truth, and which makes it a better system of prediction than any less orderly language.
