"Being a skeptic just means being rational and……" — Michael Shermer

"Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing."

— Michael Shermer

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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer

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…
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…
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
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…
Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost…
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…
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…

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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running… — Neil Armstrong
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov

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