“ Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. Claude Levi-Strauss
“ There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful. Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
“ INDECISION NOW!' isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one. Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
“ Although Dissociative Disorders have been observed from the beginnings of psychiatry, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Dissociative Disorders (Steinberg 1985) was the first diagnostic i… Marlene Steinberg
“ We live our lives based on the assumption that we directly perceive, and are accurately interpreting, objects with a fair amount of accuracy. Since we naturally assume that we are apprehending objects… Tagawa Shun'ei
“ On the other hand, we can all call to mind the case of seeing the same thing many times over and over. Everyone has had the experience of having their impression of a particular object change dependin… Tagawa Shun'ei
“ After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it. Chris Womersley
“ To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. Chris Womersley
“ Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself… Sherwood Anderson
“ As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the na… Victor J. Stenger
“ The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. Thomas Merton
“ Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or inser… Brad Meltzer
“ The single greatest cultural contribution of postmodernity is that it eliminates the presumption of intellectual neutrality that modernity automatically associated with skeptical rationalism. (...) It… Paul C. Vitz
“ But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method. Carl Sagan
“ Trust acquired through challenged skepticism is infinitely more solid and lasting than passive acceptance. Brownell Landrum
“ We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you do… Dallas Willard
“ For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared no… Thomas Hobbes
“ [On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated… Gerhard Falk
