"Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who……" — Michael Shermer
"Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning."
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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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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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Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is…
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