Recently, I read:

> Albert Einstein advised, stick closely to one principle: don’t listen to scientists words, fix your attention on their deeds. The reason, according to Einstein, was not that scientists would lie about their work; rather, scientists’ accounts of research are colored by their aims and aspirations, and include references to theoretical assumptions they take to be real. 

In his own words:

> IF YOU wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities. He is in just the same plight as the historian, who also, even though unconsciously, disposes events of the past around ideals that he has formed. Conclusions obtained by purely rational processes are, so far as Reality is concerned, entirely empty. 

Einstein, A. Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Apr., 1934), pp. 163-169

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