Michael Shermer Quotes About Skepticism

Quotes about: Skepticism

• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Atheist

• I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

  Michael Shermer

  Events, Mysterious, Skepticism

• Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

  Michael Shermer

  Environmental, Flip, Global Warming

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.36, Henry Holt and Company

• 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

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

  Michael Shermer

  Matter, Sticks, Stakes

  "What Is Skepticism, Anyway?" by Michael Shermer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

• Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

  Michael Shermer

  Process, Skepticism, Position

• Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

  Michael Shermer

  Way, Claims, Method

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.17, Holt Paperbacks

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