Michael Shermer Quotes

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

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.

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

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.