Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“What science offers for explaining the feelings we experience when believing in God or falling in love is complementary, not conflicting; additive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“What science tells us is that we are but one among hundreds of millions of species that evolved over the course of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.” — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Mind is just a word we use to describe neural activity in the brain. No brain, no mind. We know this because if a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
