“Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.” NeedsMindFactsChallengesEducationCreativeInformationSourceSkillsConvictionEducatedAssumptionWillingnessSkepticismOutlookNew ExperiencesSpaciousnessEducated Mind Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.'” ThinkingTwoFactsSpecialTypeHappeningsErrorsSkepticismSomething Special Author:Marcello Truzzi
“My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.” ArtReasonFactsLanguageSecretAdviceRelyAbstractSkepticismDocumentsDecipher Author:Max Born
“The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.” WorldFactsWealthAbilityHealthyEconomicsTablesInvestmentCurseFancyBootsConventionalSkepticismEnlighteningAdmirableLivelyCommentaryConventional Wisdom Author:Alan Abelson
“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.” ThinkingShouldFactsPoliticalCertainCoursesPartyDegreesCarefulCertaintyUselessTonightSkepticismPolitical PartiesBarren Book:Why I Am Not a Christian Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go back in simple faith to the one great fact of our redemption, we shall be both brought into closer fellowship with each other, and stimulated to more tender regard for the salvation of men.” MenWorldFactsChurchSimpleFrontsRegardSalvationBelieverRedemptionBrotherhoodSkepticismFellowshipImmoralityParalyzedSimple Faith Author:William Mackergo Taylor