"But the power of science lies in open……" — Michael Shermer
"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
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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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Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on…
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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may…
— Mary Robinson
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and…
— Henri Matisse
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance…
— E. O. Wilson
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men,…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the…
— Rudolph Rummel
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to…
— Walter Raleigh
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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities…
— Ayelet Waldman
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the…
— Samuel Johnson
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