Michael Shermer - Best Quotes

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

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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

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.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: Michael Shermer

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.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition and that is science.

But because we live in an age of science we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.

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.