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

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

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

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.