scepticism

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dbfb9f8	Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.	racism stupidity religion dislikes scepticism superstition	Christopher Hitchens
dba571c	Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.	scepticism weakness zombie	Max Brooks
df14379	To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.	doubt faith religion scepticism dogma experience kool-aid	Christopher Hitchens
14f7114	And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.	faith reason religion science scepticism belief principles	Christopher Hitchens
d91a705	It could all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.	reality virtual-reality scepticism	Iain M. Banks
26dac7e	When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.	scepticism rationality evidence	Isaac Asimov
8fa1ff8	Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.	scepticism immorality sin	Fulton J. Sheen

Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

racism stupidity religion dislikes scepticism superstition

Christopher Hitchens

dba571c

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

scepticism weakness zombie

Max Brooks

df14379

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

doubt faith religion scepticism dogma experience kool-aid

Christopher Hitchens

14f7114

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

faith reason religion science scepticism belief principles

Christopher Hitchens

d91a705

It could all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.

reality virtual-reality scepticism

Iain M. Banks

26dac7e

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.

scepticism rationality evidence

Isaac Asimov

8fa1ff8

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

scepticism immorality sin

Fulton J. Sheen