#skeptic

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bureaucrats #comes #corporate #digging #government

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#almost #comes #i #innate #nothing

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. ↗

— Mark Warner

#come #confounded #cynics #decisions #demand

Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#faith #skepticism #ufo #death

Scientists are always skeptics. ↗

— Donald Norman

#scientists #skeptics

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#being #dan #dan rather #enough #guilty

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#skepticism #tainted #yourself

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#behind #decisions #elect #evidence #facts

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ↗

— Romain Rolland

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