"Smart people believe weird things because they are……" — Michael Shermer
"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons."
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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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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
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It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
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I leave from where the apostle arrived.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known…
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I…
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I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I…
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver,…
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