I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily although I tried.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business or even a strictly online business can form the same kind of friendly loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.