Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“History is the myth, the true myth, of man’s fall made manifest in time.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“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)