To believe in luck - is skepticism

To believe in luck - is skepticism

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is read more

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith read more

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts read more

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first read more

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca