Atheism Quote by Ashley Montagu Download Open image “The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.” — Ashley Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Believe Certainty Doubt Proof Religion Science Scientist
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
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
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share
In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.' — David Eller Copy Share Image
“So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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 a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
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 messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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 preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it!… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image