Science Quotes by Michael Shermer

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

— Michael Shermer

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

— Michael Shermer

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

— Michael Shermer

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

— Michael Shermer

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

— Michael Shermer

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

— Michael Shermer

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

— Michael Shermer

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for…

— Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish,…

— Michael Shermer

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if…

— Michael Shermer

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's…

— Michael Shermer

'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things.

— Michael Shermer

We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all…

— Michael Shermer

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

“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more…

— Michael Shermer

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of…

— Michael Shermer

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and…

— Michael Shermer

“Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution,…

— Michael Shermer

“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

As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive…

— Michael Shermer

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of…

— Michael Shermer

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

“What science tells us is that we are but one among hundreds of millions of species that evolved over the course of…

— Michael Shermer

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

“What science offers for explaining the feelings we experience when believing in God or falling in love is complementary, not conflicting; additive,…

— Michael Shermer

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an…

— Michael Shermer

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once…

— Michael Shermer

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…

— Michael Shermer

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot…

— Michael Shermer

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

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such…

— Michael Shermer

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but…

— Michael Shermer

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that…

— Michael Shermer

“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.”

— Michael Shermer

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

— Michael Shermer

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the…

— Michael Shermer

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the…

— Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,…

— Michael Shermer

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

— Michael Shermer