Belief Quote by Paul Davies

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

— Kedar Joshi

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

— David Milne

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by…

— Paul Davies

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella