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Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
- Michael Shermer
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#Audience
#Because
#Television
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.
- Michael Shermer
#Believe
#Liberty
#Responsibility
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
- Michael Shermer
#Calling
#Evidence
#Prove
#Question
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.
- Michael Shermer
#Design
#Divine
#Earth
#Home
#Life
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
- Michael Shermer
#Bad
#God
#Prayer
#Religion
#Science
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.
- Michael Shermer
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#Light
#Space
#Universe
#Window
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.
- Michael Shermer
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#New
#Support
#Week
#Will
In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
- Michael Shermer
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#Long
#Understand
#Way
#World
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
- Michael Shermer
#Alien
#Deny
#Experience
#Me
#Real
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
- Michael Shermer
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#Facts
#Find
#Me
#People
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
- Michael Shermer
#Analysis
#Consciousness
#Principles
#Up
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
- Michael Shermer
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#Evolution
#Live
#Survive
#Us
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
- Michael Shermer
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#Hope
#Science
#Survival
#Values
One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
- Michael Shermer
#Am
#Effectiveness
#I Am
#Supplements
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
- Michael Shermer
#Naturally
#Science
#Thinking
#Training
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
- Michael Shermer
#Events
#Once
#Science
#Understood
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
- Michael Shermer
#Experience
#Fired
#Incompetence
#People
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
- Michael Shermer
#History
#Human
#Nonlinear
#Unpredictable
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
- Michael Shermer
#Data
#Explain
#New
#Science
#Way
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
- Michael Shermer
#Meaning
#Morality
#Motivation
#True
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
- Michael Shermer
#Age
#Because
#Live
#Myths
#Science
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
- Michael Shermer
#Looking
#Science
#Things
#Thinking
#Way
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
- Michael Shermer
#Nature
#Political
#Religion
#Science
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