Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. — Simone Weil 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
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“I will not engage in verbal controversy with the sceptic, because long experience has taught me that the sceptic’s ultimate skepticism is… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it… — Franz Hartmann Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Trust your internal observations too much and too long, and you might be in for a very rude awakening. Second, we believe… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Nobody believes in God like an atheist: 'There is no God, and I am His prophet.” — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
2 wrongs dont make a right, but when its too right somthing has to be wrong. — Syoung Copy Share Image
