Rachel Caine Quotes

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

I believe that people should be able to question things.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

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.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

My only weapon is the question.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to make sure that you're doing so in the spirit of genuinely wanting to find the answers - and that also means being open. I battle with this: I know I tend to be very skeptical and as a result, I veer towards the dismissive. But being aware of the tendency, I like to challenge my own skepticism and make sure it's not just knee-jerk. You need to be skeptical towards yourself as well. When you're only skeptical outwards you've got an unbalanced skepticism.