Accounts Quote by Barrington Moore Jr

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

— Anonymous

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the…

— Mehmet Oz

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

— Jacob Bronowski

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

— H. L. Mencken

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

— Rudolf Virchow

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are…

— Christopher Hitchens

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one…

— Albert Einstein

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our…

— Sam Harris

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more…

— Bertrand Russell

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such…

— Thomas Huxley

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation…

— Robert Green Ingersoll