Skeptical Quotes
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
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.
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I`ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.