"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number……" — Michael Shermer
"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
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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 Crowds Quotes
This quote is filed under Crowds Quotes,
one of 1,245 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Never follow the crowd.
— Bernard Baruch
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with…
— Justin Bieber
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his…
— Buffalo Bill
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap…
— Emily Blunt
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
— Edward de Bono
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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