Edwin Land Quotes

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

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

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

Modern science's defense against self-delusion relies upon a spirit of open and critical inquiry. This, though hardly infallible, ostensibly uncovers errors and thereby proceeds towards objective truth

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

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.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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 a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Seek truth from facts.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.