Quotes by : Michael Shermer

For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs....

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the....

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns,....

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that....

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically....

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing....

Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or....

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming....

...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and....

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.