doubt Quotes

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.