Quotes About Doubt

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Fear is religion, courage is science.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.