Harry Kroto Quotes

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Don't believe everything you read.

We’ve learned our lesson. We are not going to take any more intelligence at face value.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

I don't believe everything I read.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

Because I don't believe everything I read.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.