Michael Shermer Quotes

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

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.