Carl Sagan on Skepticism

Importance of Skepticism

Science is more than a body of knowledge, it is a way of thinking, a way of being skeptical and skeptically interrogating the universe,
with the full knowledge of human fallibility.

If we are not taught to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those
in authority, then we are up for grabs, to the next charlatan, political or religious person ambling along.

It is something that Jefferson laid great stress on, that it is not enough to enshrine some rights into a constitution,
and a bill of rights.  The people have to be educated, and have to learn to practice their skepticism,
otherwise we don't run the government, the government runs us. --Carl Sagan