Michael Shermer Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

  Michael Shermer

  Smart, Believe, People

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks

• There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Belief

  Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.271, Macmillan

• Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

  Michael Shermer

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

• ...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Believe, Reality

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.30, Macmillan

• The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

  Michael Shermer

  Self, Belief, Capacity

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.136, Henry Holt and Company

• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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