Skeptical Quotes
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Wanting to believe something is not any reason at all to believe it. If anything, it`s a reason to question it.
A scientist must (...) be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
Where people are baffled, they are often tempted to resort to mystical explanations.
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism - and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.