Michael Shermer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.”

“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.”

“Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.”

“One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.”

“One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.”

“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.”

“Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.”

“In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.”

“Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.”

“There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.”