Quotes about Expert Skepticism

Richard Dawkins

Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.

Vannevar Bush

I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.

Burt Rutan

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

Richard P. Feynman

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

Danny Hillis

If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

Fred Thompson

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

Michael Gove

People are sick of experts.

In reference to the "experts" wrongingly predicting the outcome of the Brexit vote in the UK.

Expert Skepticism Quotes