Editing Doubt (section)

==Science==
<blockquote>
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
—[[Henri Poincaré]], Science and Hypothesis (1905) (from Dover abridged edition of 1952)</blockquote>

The [[scientific method]] regularly quantifies{{cn|date=August 2024}} doubt, and uses it to determine whether [[further research is needed]]. [[Isaac Asimov]], in his 1962 essay collection ''[[Fact and Fancy]]'', described science as a system for causing and resolving intelligent doubt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://patduffyhutcheon.com/humanist%20articles/asimov.htm |title=Isaac Asimov: A Prophet for Our Time |access-date=2017-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625105519/http://patduffyhutcheon.com/humanist%20articles/asimov.htm |archive-date=2017-06-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Charles Sanders Peirce | Charles Peirce]] saw doubt as the starting point of any scientific investigation.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Reilly
 |first1               = Francis E.
 |date                 = 18 September 2018
 |orig-date            = 1970
 |chapter              = The scientist's concern: knowledge for its own sake
 |title                = Charles Peirce's Theory of Scientific Method
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=8ouUDwAAQBAJ
 |series               = American Philosophy
 |publisher            = Fordham University Press
 |isbn                 = 9780823283200
 |access-date          = 6 August 2024
 |quote                = [...] scientific doubt and belief [...] mark the beginning and the end of a scientific investigation, a process which [Peirce] calls 'inquiry.'
}} 
</ref>
[[Karl Popper]] deployed scientific doubt as an essential tool: scientists working in the Popperian paradigm doubt any theory so thoroughly that they strive to [[falsifiability | falsify]] that theory.<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor1              = Pushpam Kumar
 |date                 = 20 December 2010
 |orig-date            = 2010
 |title                = The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=qgH5bdeq3eIC
 |series               = TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
 |publication-place    = London
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |page                 = xx
 |isbn                 = 9781136538797
 |access-date          = 6 August 2024
 |quote                = Following Karl popper's scientific method [...] would suggest that any scientific theory should be falsifiable, and tested and made acceptable through repeated experiments, any one of which could prove it wrong.
}} 
</ref>