"We do not just blindly concede control to……" — Michael Shermer
"We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave."
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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 Authorities Quotes
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we…
— Kate Adie
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly…
— John O. Brennan
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.…
— Mel Brooks
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a…
— Andrew Napolitano
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial…
— Gijs de Vries
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph…
— Frederick Soddy
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
— Lucretia Mott
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