Ancient Quote by Paul Laffoley

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

— Patricia Churchland

“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…

— Stephen C. Meyer

“The processes we’re going through are two sides of the same coin, because everything ends in mystery — the scientists have theories, and the…

— Ray Bradbury

“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal…

— Thomas A. Edison

So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry.…

— Gail Fine

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest…

— Albert Einstein

“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular…

— David Watson

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

— Roger E. Olson

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science…

— Susan Jacoby

“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my reason *God,…

— Immanuel Kant

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green

This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role…

— Susan Jacoby