Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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