Agnostic Quote by Ashley Montagu Download Open image “The scientist believes in proof without certainty.” — Ashley Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agnostic Certainty Doubt Evolution Fear Proof Rage Religious Science Scientist
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof. — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.' — David Eller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world . — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.” — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin Copy Share Image