Skeptical Quotes

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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.

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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Christopher Hitchens

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No amount of belief makes something a fact.

James Randi

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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My desire for something impossible does not make it less impossible.

Penn Jillette

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Wanting to believe something is not any reason at all to believe it. If anything, it`s a reason to question it.

Penn Jillette

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Smart people believe weird things because they are better at rationalizing their beliefs that they hold for non-smart reasons.

Michael Shermer

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The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become.

Charles Darwin

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We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken", and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn`t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Carl Sagan

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Paul Kurtz

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)

Alan Sokal

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what`s true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

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