Read quote“They just were not willing to believe that cataracts could be removed without cutting the eye halfway open.”
About Skepticism
Doubt, critical inquiry, questioning assumptions, and resistance to unfounded certainty.
The collection
Words on Skepticism
Read quote“Each eradication of one of these is a gain to science; and each vulgar opinion, proved to be erroneous, is an approximation to truth.”
Read quote“The VVG issue is a crusade in desperate search of a crisis.”
Read quote“Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.”
Read quote“Nothing can be taken for granted.”
Read quote“We must not believe that rules are written in tablets of stone.”
Read quote“Conjectures ignore dislike and suspicion, but they cannot ignore counterexamples.”
Read quote“An opinion settles nothing unless the truth of the assertion is either self-evident or demonstrated.”
Read quote“I stop reading wherever apocryphism rears its two-faced head.”
Read quote“I could never owe allegiance to any one of the various schools of psychoanalysis or of psychotherapy.”
Read quote“Thurgood [Marshall] says that the only people who are safe in the South are the women—white and Negro. I don't know how he's got that figured. But, so far, I've never been subjected to any violence.”
Read quote“El rap me ha permitido una libertad creativa que no he encontrado en otros lados. Me ha permitido cuestionarme y cuestionar al mundo.”
Read quote“Ce que cherche la poésie, c’est à déconstruire les idéologies.”
Read quote“Elismerem, ez a feltevés valóban tetszetős... csak éppen semmi köze sincs az igazsághoz.”
Read quote“At its best, the philosophical discipline causes us to think straight and to question misdirection in the propositions of others.”
Read quote“Conversion will not bring about any good.”
Read quote“There are no miracles in football.”
Read quote“The sport then was to challenge assumptions.”
Read quote“My second thought was, if someone in security is this important, something is wrong.”
Read quote“We are breaking with the past, because we cannot accept its hypotheses.”
