But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.