"As a social primate species, we modulate our……" — Michael Shermer
"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 past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce."
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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer has 97 quotes on this site.
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive…
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I…
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More Attributes Quotes
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
— Aristotle
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love,…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,…
— Joseph Addison
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount…
— Jo Brand
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
— John Calvin
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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
— Graydon Carter
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie
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