As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.