Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“He will have true glory who despises it.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”
—Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)