Evidence-Based Thinking Quotes

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

Science is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.