Skeptical Quotes

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One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Henry Huxley

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.

Carl Sagan

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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Sagan

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Daniel Dennett

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