Skepticism Quotes

295 quotes by 225 authors

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus… — Seth Godin
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton
'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is… — Marcello Truzzi
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of… — Henry David Thoreau
Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and… — Francis Crick
Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a… — Fred Hoyle
The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. — Isaac Asimov
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be… — Richard P. Feynman
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated… — Eugene Wigner
My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret… — Max Born
In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years -… — Lewis Thomas
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in… — Lewis Thomas
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process… — Albert Einstein
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his… — Odysseas Elytis
There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can… — Criss Jami
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone

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