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From Quotes by Michael Shermer
- Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
- No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a…
- We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as…
- Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about…
- Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to…
- The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
- We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
- Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and…
- People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently…
- One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately…
- As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto