... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

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

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.