Quotes About Skepticism

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

When strangers walk up to me and want to play golf for money, I worry. I wonder why they're coming to me, and I begin asking questions: When did you start playing? What's your best score? Are you playing your best golf right now? Where do you play? Usually I can tell if they're lying.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

To worship the devil, you have to believe in it first.

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.

I don't believe in Tony Blair.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.