Credulity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.”

— Juan Filloy

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

— Eric Hoffer

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

— Francois Fenelon

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its…

— John Fowles

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Anonymous

“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good…

— Frances Wright