Michael Scott Quotes

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Beware of the person of one book.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

Denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.