I’m positive that the person who downvoted has somehow misinterpreted my pithy statement so perhaps I should explain myself. “Nullius in verba” is the original

I’m positive that the person who downvoted has somehow misinterpreted my pithy statement so perhaps I should explain myself. “Nullius in verba” is the original motto of the Royal Society, arguably the birthplace of modern science. It roughly translates to “take no one’s word” and encouraged an epistemological worldview based on empiricism. This was situated in a world where truth of all matters was primarily dictated by authority, even those of the natural philosophies. The truths of science were to be experienced in the laboratory just as the truths of a cake recipe were to be experienced in the kitchen. The person that I am responding to is lamenting the fact that there is a certain expectation that one must “believe in science”. This is in direct contrast to “nullius in verba”.