Skeptical Quotes

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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Haruki Murakami

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Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Jodi Picoult

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Douglas Adams

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out. Of course we must be willing to change our minds when warranted by new evidence. But the evidence must be strong.

Carl Sagan

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The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view I hold dear.

Daniel Dennett

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Some philosophers can`t bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don`t go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

Daniel Dennett

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Daniel Dennett

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Sam Harris

Spirituality can be - indeed, must be - deeply rational.

Sam Harris

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

Charles Darwin

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

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