Belief Quote by Paul Kurtz

... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

— Jean Rostand

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely…

— Luis Alvarez

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

— Naomi Oreskes

“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…

— Richard Dawkins

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon…

— Anonymous

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world…

— Lewis Wolpert

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or…

— Hugh Ross

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

— Damon Lindelof

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell