Quotes About Skepticism

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

I don't believe in psychology.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

No person can fool all the people all the time.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

You can't always believe what you hear. Things change so often in this sport, you'd be a fool if you believed everything that came out.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

The public can't be fooled all the time.

It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

The public are not fools.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

It is true that footballers are mistrustful.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.