Alternatives Quote by Carl Sagan

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I…

— Isaac Newton

“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

“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.”

— Michael S. Horton

I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe…

— Galileo Galilei

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

— Murray Gell-Mann

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Every day, without exception, the scientific community discovers, uncovers or realizes something new that serves to debunk one of the long-held beliefs of fundamental…

— Al Stefanelli

The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove…

— John Stuart Mill

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are finally proved…

— George Orwell

“[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.”

— John Stott

“Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts.”

— Matthew A. Petti

Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one…

— David Mermin