"The reason is that in a group, individual……" — Michael Shermer
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you…
— Arthur Ashe
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A…
— Albert Camus
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As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days…
— Craig Kilborn
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
— Sam Horn
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The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity…
— Auberon Waugh
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
— June Jordan
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Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in…
— George Washington
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When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does,…
— Harry Shearer
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
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