Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.

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

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

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

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Everything is a test.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

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

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

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.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.