“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“We live our lives based on the assumption that we directly perceive, and are accurately interpreting, objects with a fair amount of… — Tagawa Shun'ei Copy Share Image
My skepticism doesn't come from no one. There's a root to it, and it's my family. — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. — Antoine Arnauld Copy Share Image
“[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult.… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
