Bill Foster Quotes

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

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

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Science is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. A man would perish of hunger and thirst, if he refused to eat or drink, till he had obtained positive proof that food and drink would be good for him. But in philosophic reflection this is not so. On the contrary, we must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.