"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or……" — Michael Shermer

"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."

— 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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no… — Gaston Bachelard
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. — Scott Bakula
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't… — Tyra Banks
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself. — Victoria Beckham
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a… — Buffalo Bill
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable… — Ben Affleck

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