“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”
Walter Gilbert
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”
Contributed by: Michelle
Buddha
“Ah, the ability to think independently”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence”
Charles Austin Beard
“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
Richard Feynman
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
David Suzuki
“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability”
David Hume
