List of Michael Shermer Quotes

It Is Sad That While Science Moves Ahead In Exciting New Areas Of Research, Fine-tuning Our Knowledge Of How Life Originated And Evolved, Creationists Remain Mired In Medieval Debates About Angels On The Head Of A Pin And Animals In The Belly Of An Ark.

No Such Individual Would Find The Golden Rule Surprising In Any Way Because At Its Base Lies The Foundation Of Most Human Interactions And Exchanges And It Can Be Found In Countless Texts Throughout Recorded History And From Around The World - A Testimony To Its Universality.

Creationists Have Also Changed Their Name ... To Intelligent Design Theorists Who Study 'irreducible Complexity' And The 'abrupt Appearance' Of Life-yet More Jargon For 'god Did It.' ... Notice That They Have No Interest In Replacing Evolution With Native American Creation Myths Or Including The Code Of Hammarabi Alongside The Posting Of The Ten Commandments In Public Schools.

Because Of The Complexity Of The Problem, Environmental Skepticism Was Once Tenable. No Longer. It Is Time To Flip From Skepticism To Activism.

Dualists Hold That Body And Soul Are Separate Entities And That The Soul Will Continue Beyond The Existence Of The Physical Body.

Intelligent Design Is A Remarkably Uncreative Theory That Abandons The Search For Understanding At The Very Point Where It Is Most Needed. If Intelligent Design Is Really A Science, Then The Burden Is On Its Scientists To Discover The Mechanisms Used By The Intelligent Designer. (80)

Plato Wove Historical Fact Into Literary Myth.

Human History Is Highly Nonlinear And Unpredictable.

Through No Divine Design Or Cosmic Plan, We Have Inherited The Mantle Of Life's Caretaker On The Earth, The Only Home We Have Ever Known.

My Thesis Is That Morality Exists Outside The Human Mind In The Sense Of Being Not Just A Trait Of Individual Humans, But A Human Trait; That Is, A Human Universal.

For Solving A Surprisingly Large And Varied Number Of Problems, Crowds Are Smarter Than Individuals.

We're All Talking About The Same Thing, Whether It's Religious People Or New Age Spiritual People Or Buddhists Or Scientists. We're All Talking About Having A Sense Of Awe And Wonder At Something Grander Than Ourselves.