Quotes About Doubt

How can we trust our loved one, when there is mouthful of lies.....

Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I don't believe in natural science.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.