Dalai Lama Quotes

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

I believe in things that have proof.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.