Quotes About Skepticism

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.

La pseudociencia colma necesidades emocionales poderosas que la ciencia suele dejar insatisfechas

Un asombroso declive de la expectativa de vida, el aumento de la mortalidad infantil, las violentas epidemias de enfermedades, las condiciones sanitarias por debajo del mínimo y la ignorancia de la medicina preventiva se unen para elevar el umbral a partir del cual se dispara el escepticismo de una población cada vez más desesperada

saben realmente lo que afirman saber?

I do not want to believe. I want to know.

Bilimi (daha doÄŸrusu iÅŸleyiÅŸ ilkelerini) hiç duymad?ysan?z, sahte bilime kucak açt???n?z?n fark?nda bile olmayabilirsiniz.

She began talking the moment Kitz left her office. "What's he after? Vegan death rays?

That's why they're placed in UFO magazines—because by and large the very act of buying such a magazine so categorizes the reader.

Pero los humanos tenemos talento para engañarnos a nosotros mismos. El escepticismo debe ser un componente de la caja de herramientas del explorador, en otro caso nos perderemos en el camino. El espacio tiene maravillas suficientes sin tener que inventarlas.

Our psychological predispositions pros or cons must not misleads us. All that matters is the evidence, and the evident is not in.

science to forge a potent partnership against pseudo-science.

La idea general de una aplicación democrática del escepticismo es que todo el mundo debería tener las herramientas esenciales para valorar eficaz y constructivamente las afirmaciones de conocimiento

Lo único que pide la ciencia es que se apliquen los mismos niveles de escepticismo que al comprar un coche usado o al juzgar la calidad de un analgésico o una cerveza a través de los anuncios de la televisión.

He wants it both ways—the language and credibility of science, but without being bound by its method and rules.

Una señal inequívoca del amor a la verdad —escribía John Locke en 1690—, es no mantener ninguna proposición con mayor seguridad de la que garantizan las pruebas en las que se basa.» En el tema de los ovnis, ¿cuál es la fuerza de las pruebas?

Los que tienen algo que vender, los que desean influir en la opinión pública, los que mandan, podría sugerir un escéptico, tienen un interés personal en no fomentar el escepticismo.

Science may have evicted ghosts and witches from our beliefs

Vigorous criticism is more constructive in science than in some other areas of human endeavor because in science there are adequate standards of validity that can be agreed upon by competent practitioners the world over. The objective of such criticism is not to suppress but rather to encourage the advance of new ideas: those that survive a firm skeptical scrutiny have a fighting chance of being right, or at least useful.

the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which skepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

A credulous mind Ã¢â'¬Â¦ finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.

what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all?

One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." (

O primeiro pecado da humanidade foi a fé; a primeira virtude foi a dúvida.