This seems kinda fitting.
Neil DeGrase Tyson:
One of the greatest challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong. The goal is to train your mind how to see the world differently, how to question what others say.
I've come to realize that there are three categories of truth - personal truth, political truths, and the objective truths that shape our understanding of the universe.
The interesting thing about an objective truth is that it's true no matter what. Imagine that.
We all have susceptibility to bias. Search engines on the internet are the epidomy of confirmation bias, and you're going to use that as evidence that you are correct? No. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
What does it mean to be skeptical? What does it mean to be convinced by data? A proper skeptic questions what they're unsure of but recognized when valid evidence is presented to change their mind.
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