Atheism Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are…

— Isaac Newton

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

— Claude Bernard

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man…

— Thomas Jefferson

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

— Anonymous

We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the…

— Claude Bernard

“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

“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and…

— C.S. Lewis

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason…

— Galileo Galilei

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

— Chauncey Wright