William Blake Quotes

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Happily I had very early learned the fallacy of building much on logic and verbal argument. Single sets of truths I knew to be as little conclusive in theology as in physics; and, in one as in the other, no theory to be worth anything, however plausibly backed up with Scripture texts or facts, which was not gathered bona fide from the analysis of all the attainable phenomena, and verified wherever possible by experiment.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is not wisdom.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

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

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.