The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,” — Peter Unger Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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