Skeptic Quotes

Joe Nickell

Steven Novella

Guy P. Harrison

Museums are my cathedrals. Artifacts in glass cases are my sacred relics. I truly believe I have felt something close to religious fervor inside some of these buildings. I even feel that I have experienced the occasional transcendent moment inside a museum.

Guy P. Harrison

I think science is best taught as a puzzle to be solved.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

The glistening varnish and certain surface irregularities created a play of light that produced the appearance of weeping. A religious supplicant predisposed to see tears...could, especially if carrying a candle, see in the resultant glimmering in the tiny eyes, aided by vertical cracks and other streaks, the effect of tears.