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The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to aband...

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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

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We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any...

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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

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David HumeLetters of David Hume 2 vols

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an und...

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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...

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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weaknes...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of ...

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A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're...

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

No ghosts need