Quotes About Skepticism

Oh really? You're cold?

Maybe it was that Hamlet line he referenced, where he wrote about someone who was "protesting" too much.

Michael Cullen talking to his mother) - You told me I never had a father, regretting such a stupid phrase when she replied: 'Who do you think you are, Jesus Christ? I'll get you a cross from Littlewoods if you like, or maybe I'll rent one for three days

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Probably fake anyway," Adrana said, with a knowing sniff, as if she had plenty of experience in this area. "C'mon. Don't want to dawdle, not when there's so much to see. The next one's a Limb Broker.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

I'm a pessimist.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

I don't believe in diet pills. I don't want my heart to race and pop out of my chest.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!