--- title: "1 Excessive Faith Quotes By Gary Taubes" description: "1 Excessive Faith quotes by Gary Taubes. Plus more from Gary Taubes and more Excessive Faith sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e66/gary-taubes-11659_faith_men-who-have-excessive-faith-in-their-th_2595935.png" --- > [“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/men-who-have-excessive-faith-in-their-theories-or-ideas-are-not-only-2/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e66/gary-taubes-11659_faith_men-who-have-excessive-faith-in-their-th_2595935.png) ## More by Gary Taubes > [“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/canned-breakfast-juices-had-first-appeared-during-prohibition/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The bottom line is something that’s been known (and mostly ignored) for over forty years. The one thing we absolutely have to do if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-bottom-line-is-something-that-s-been-known-and-mostly-ignored-for/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The most important and most easily measured would be waist circumference. But other factors include small, dense LDL (or a high apoB or LDL…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-most-important-and-most-easily-measured-would-be-waist/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/it-may-be-easier-to-believe-that-we-remain-lean-because-we-re/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“By 1952, the University of Minnesota nutritionist Ancel Keys was arguing that high blood levels of cholesterol caused heart disease, and that it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/by-1952-the-university-of-minnesota-nutritionist-ancel-keys-was/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-point-to-keep-in-mind-is-that-you-don-t-lose-fat-because-you-cut/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-simplest-way-to-look-at-all-these-associations-between-obesity/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“In particular, raising blood sugar will increase the production of what are known technically as reactive oxygen species and advanced glycation end-products, both of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/in-particular-raising-blood-sugar-will-increase-the-production-of/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“In Type 1 diabetes, the cause is a lack of insulin. The result is an inability to use glucose for fuel and to retain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/in-type-1-diabetes-the-cause-is-a-lack-of-insulin-the-result-is-an/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-point-to-keep-in-mind-is-that-you-don-t-lose-fat-because-you-cut-2/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/we-don-t-get-fat-because-we-overeat-we-overeat-because-we-re-getting/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“Those who ran the most tended to weigh the least, but all these runners tended to get fatter with each passing year, even those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/those-who-ran-the-most-tended-to-weigh-the-least-but-all-these/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The “remarkable sodium and water retaining effect of concentrated carbohydrate food,” as the University of Wisconsin endocrinologist Edward Gordon called it, was then explained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-remarkable-sodium-and-water-retaining-effect-of-concentrated/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“Does being “thin” ensure optimal “health”? No. It’s now well accepted that many lean individuals have the condition known as metabolic syndrome, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/does-being-thin-ensure-optimal-health-no-it-s-now-well-accepted-that/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/there-is-a-theory-that-creativity-arises-when-individuals-are-out-of/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excessive-faith/gary-taubes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Excessive Faith Quotes By Gary Taubes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results, only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim…. But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find others’ theories faulty and to try to contradict them. The difficulty, for science, is still the same. 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