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I like to prove things wrong.
Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.
There are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong.
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
One can never conclusively prove an idea, only disprove it.
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
Theories are there. Heroes are here
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.
Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
All our skill at disproving things is like a wall we build between us and wonder. To jump that wall, you need a long running start.-The Tragedy of Arthur
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
Write something the skeptics will sneer at.
Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.
Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
Great intellects are skeptical.
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.
Who can refute a sneer?
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.
There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.
Never bullshit a bullshiter
I am not fond of disputation; I have no alternative.
I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because - compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson - my skull is a bag of hammers. I'm
There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
In science, truth always wins
Science probes; it does not prove.
Rumors get started with a kernel of truth
I often play a move I know how to refute.
To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.
The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease
the problem of being right too often.
Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He
A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.
Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.
I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Science depends on organized skepticism, that is, on continual, methodical doubting. Few of us doubt our own conclusions, so science embraces its skeptical approach by rewarding those who doubt someone else's.
History is the great propagator of doubt.
Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who
Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
Belief is the enemy of knowledge.
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
I like to see people doubt me.
Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth.
I hate bullshitters; you can never bullshit them.
Silence is an arguement hard to refute
Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.
When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.