Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

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.

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!'

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

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

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.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

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