Charles Darwin Quotes

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 teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

No authority is higher than reality.

Facts are better than dreams.

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

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

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!'

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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.