“ 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… Hermann Weyl
“ Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath. pfano percy rathogwa
“ 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. Carl Sagan
“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Peter Medawar
“ Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. Douglas Adams
“ I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen Roberts
“ To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens
“ A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. Ricky Gervais
“ 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. Jim Jefferies
“ 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'? Jake Jesser
“ Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. Max Brooks
“ 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… G.K. Chesterton
“ 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… Iain M. Banks
“ Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. Fulton J. Sheen
“ The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it. Raheel Farooq
“ When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying. Isaac Asimov
