The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

It is evident that skepticism while it makes no actual change in man always makes him feel better.

Its attitude which it has preached and practiced is skepticism. Now it finds the public is applying that skepticism to the press.