"The whole point of faith, in fact, is……" — Michael Shermer
"The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science."
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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer has 97 quotes on this site.
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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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Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is…
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More Antithesis Quotes
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one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.
— John O. Brennan
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it…
— Aaron Copland
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
— Willie Garson
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Everything contains its antithesis.
— Juliet Stevenson
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
— Aravind Adiga
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the…
— Frank Herbert
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all…
— Gerhard Richter
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It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We…
— Martin Buber
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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he…
— Nick Gravenites
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Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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