If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

The line expresses a deliberately provocative, science-forward skepticism: what a culture treats as settled “truth” is often provisional, later revised or overturned as evidence and methods improve. Read this way, it is less a claim that reality itself is false than a warning about human certainty—especially in technology and medicine, where progress routinely replaces yesterday’s best explanations with better models. The quote also functions as an argument for humility and continuous experimentation: if history shows that confident consensus can be wrong, then innovation depends on questioning assumptions, testing claims, and staying open to being corrected. Its absolutist phrasing (“all truths”) is rhetorical, meant to jolt rather than to be taken as a strict logical universal.