Skeptical Approach Quotes

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation, They don't cherry pick data, They take a skeptical approach to what they do. And then scientists work together to get a consensus as to what should be believed And that generates very reliable knowledge and that reliable knowledge drives innovation

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.