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| Quote for category - doubt and uncertainty |
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all
hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no
new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of
skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone
wrong.
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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever
abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and
that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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The common dogma is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a
scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the
major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new
knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a
rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently
violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will
decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not
without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from
thinking.
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