I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I don’t believe in icons.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Seeing is not always believing.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

I really don’t believe in magic.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

People love conspiracy theories.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

I’m an atheist.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You can’t trust very many people.