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Thinking Quotes by Michael Shermer
- The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
- ... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk;…
- As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become…
- ...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus…
- 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 century),…
- 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…
- We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
- Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
- Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
- 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 explanations for all…
- How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in…
- The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built…
More Thinking Quotes
- If you're not a hater you're probably not thinking hard enough. — Nikhil Saluja
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello