Atheism Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

— Denis Diderot

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

— Roger Scruton

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

— Rebecca Goldstein

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

— Joan Bennett Kennedy

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard… let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

— James Anthony Froude

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

— Anonymous

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

— Jerry A. Coyne

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty