Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be interested and, you know, have they come here? Are they up there?

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.