Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

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

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.