Quotes About Skepticism

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

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

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

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?"