Roberto Orci Quotes

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

I respect and believe skeptics.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

Neither truth, reason, nor justice consists in stubbornness of assertion, nor in the repetition of error.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

Question everything!

I wish at all events to retain at all times a judicial habit of not condemning a thing utterly until I have heard what is to be said for it.

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.