Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to… — Gary Taubes

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.

Skepticism, however, cannot be removed from the scientific process. Science does not function without it.

A colleague once defined an academic discipline as a group of scholars who had agreed not to ask certain embarrassing questions about key assumptions.