"I just witnessed an event so mysterious that……" — Michael Shermer
"I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism."
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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 Event Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own…
— Abdallah II
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