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Quotes About Doubt

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.
~ Joao Magueijo
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
~ Yann Martel
Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
~ John Guare
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...
~ Bill Gates
One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
~ Stephen King, The Mist
I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.
~ Voltaire, Micromegas
She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.
~ William Hertling, Kill Process
Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.
~ Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God'shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, The Star
Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.
~ Vasileios Kalampakas, Argo
I am not capable of love. - Felix
~ Donna Galanti, The Dark Inside
I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.
~ B.V. Larson, Extinction
Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".
~ Nathanie Randall
I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
~ Lisa Tuttle
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.
~ Claudia Gray
Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
~ William Blake
Are you OK?" I asked. "I think so." Logan stared at me, and a smile pulled up his lips. "But maybe you should give me mouth-to-mouth, just to make sure.
~ Jennifer Estep