Steven Novella quotes
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“What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. So which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?”
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“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.”
-- Steven NovellaSource : "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.
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“Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.”
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“History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.”
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“There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.”
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“The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.”
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“Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.”
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“Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.”
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“Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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