Dubious Quote by Robertson Davies

“Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.”

— Rory Freedman

Scientists are always skeptics.

— Anonymous

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

— Jeb Bush

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its…

— Michael Shermer

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the…

— Carl Sagan

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever,…

— Scarlett Thomas

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that…

— Robert Winston

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that…

— Walter Gilbert

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

— Umberto Eco

I'm a natural sceptic.

— David Hockney

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes,…

— Anthony Standen

Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of…

— Jacques Vallee