Empirical World Quotes by Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer has 97 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
• People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
• Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
• As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
• Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
• Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
• The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
• Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
• Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
• Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
• Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
• The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…

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