I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily although I tried.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business or even a strictly online business can form the same kind of friendly loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

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

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Should doubt knock at your doorway just say to those skeptical disturbing rebellious thoughts I propose to stay with my faith with the faith of my people.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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.

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

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea but I am skeptical as to its results.

It is evident that skepticism while it makes no actual change in man always makes him feel better.