Skeptical Quotes

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Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Michael Shermer

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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason [...] is like giving medicine to the dead.

Thomas Paine

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If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion.

Mark Twain

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.

David Hume

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The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don`t work, you must throw them away. Don`t waste any neurons on what doesn`t work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

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The New Age? It`s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

James Randi

Feeling better is not actually being better.

James Randi

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur Charles Clarke

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Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What`s left is magic. And it doesn`t work.

James Randi

The history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.

Sam Harris

There is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Sam Harris

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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all of his woes, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

Henry Louis Mencken

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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman

It`s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity`s highest callings.

Steven Pinker

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