Andrew Kitzmiller

“So many of us want to rush to judgment—to latch on to one style of belief or another, shutting the mind entirely to other possibilities.”
― Robert Saltzman, The Ten Thousand Things

“Certainty is the enemy of knowledge.”
― Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

“In general, those who advertise themselves as having superior moral judgment or unique access to moral truth need to be looked at askance. Not infrequently there is great advantage—in money, sex, power, and self-esteem—in setting oneself up as a moral authority. The rest of us can easily be exploited when we acquiesce in these authoritative claims. Scam artists aplenty proclaim themselves as moral gurus, willing to tell the rest of us how our conscience should behave. They can seem authoritative because they are especially charismatic or especially spiritual or especially firm in their convictions.”
― Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary.”
― George Orwell, 1984