The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
– Ashley Montagu
Related Quotes:
- Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist. – Abhijit Naskar
- Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. – Rebecca Solnit
- I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- A good scientist must accept the challenge that one day everything he believes could be wrong. – Sam Hawksmoor
- Electing a bigot enables further bigotry. – DaShanne Stokes
- There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever. – Debasish Mridha
- We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail. – DaShanne Stokes
- How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love! – Susannah Spurgeon
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu
- I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. – Mary Wortley Montagu
- A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. – Henry A Wallace
- For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god. – Debasish Mridha
- Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God. – Radhe Maa
- Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. – William Faulkner
- He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn’t believe in people. – Nadia Hashimi
- A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals. – SA Tawks
- The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. – Elbert Hubbard
- The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them. – Louis Guanella
- It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. – Nilantha Ilangamuwa
- A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination. – Debasish Mridha
- Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable. – Unknown
- A Man can Live two Weeks without Food,go two days without Water,and two minutes without Air,and apparently,an entire lifetime without a BRAIN. – Walter Thomas Jr
- A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear! – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. – Claude LviStrauss
- The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not. – AE Samaan
- The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that is intangible. – VD
- The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in the faith of a reality that is intangible. – VD
- I’m raw power & energy. And my wife is like the only scientist who can harness and direct it properly. I always thank Jah for her. (Proverbs 31:10) – Sotero M Lopez II
- A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination. – Amit Kalantri
- An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper. – EO Wilson
- You don’t need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is. – Chris Prentiss
- The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)…to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life. – H W Leggett
- You going to be a scientist when you grow up?- That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got. – Philip Pullman