Belief Quote by Andrew Michael Ramsay

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

— Ian Hacking

“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe”

— Alison Weir

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

— Socrates

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a…

— Konrad Zuse

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

— Ashley Montagu

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

— Ashley Montagu

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or…

— Gottfried Leibniz

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

— Mark Kac

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

— G. Edward Griffin

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the…

— David Hume