The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...
Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.
() etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory...
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der...
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
It could all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why trea...
When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.
How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather th...
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to bre...
It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.
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