"Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim……" — Michael Shermer
"Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it."
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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 Calling Quotes
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one of 1,706 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
— Henry Adams
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going…
— Sara Blakely
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
— Anthony Bourdain
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson…
— Jackson Browne
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
— Warren Buffett
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
— Geezer Butler
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