Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

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.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

The bedrock of science is the unwillingness to accept authority.

Question everything!

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

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.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Science is uncertain.

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

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