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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
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
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
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.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live read more
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically
Great intellects are skeptical.
Great intellects are skeptical.
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
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
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