Doubt Quote by Anonymous

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

— Richard Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

— Alan Stern

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella

“Nevertheless the opinion of experts, when it is unanimous, must be accepted by non-experts as more likely to be right than the opposite opinion.…

— Bertrand Russell

Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.

— Miranda Devine

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

— Wendy Kaminer

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that…

— Walter Gilbert

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine…

— Carl Sagan

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language…

— Robert A. Burton

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,…

— Stanley B. Prusiner