Demand Quote by Robert K. Merton

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

— Paul Davies

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Rush Limbaugh

It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to…

— Loren Eiseley

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

— James Gleick

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of…

— Tryon Edwards

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

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.

— Miranda Devine

“Science is based not on faith but in skeptism”

— Anonymous