Michael Shermer Quotes

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Michael Shermer

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• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• I love the Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Beatles

• Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Mistake
  • Moment
  • Glamorous

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

  

  Jim Hunt
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Depression

• Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Sports

• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Long
  • American
  • War

• Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Depression

• Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • May
  • Father
  • Prayer

• If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • People
  • World
  • Moving

• My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Culture

• “Come on baby Let's do the twist.”

  

  Hank Ballard
  • Baby
  • Twist

• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Superhero
  • Wake Up

• The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Time
  • Eye
  • Sorry

• You can’t stop the triggering of unhappy memories, self-critical thoughts and judgmental ways of thinking – but you can stop what happens next. You can stop the spiral from feeding off itself and triggering the next cycle of negative thoughts. You can stop the cascade of destructive emotions that can end up making you unhappy, anxious, stressed, irritable or exhausted.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Small

• There are a lot of great things that are gonna come out of this dark time.

  

  Sarah Kate Ellis
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Things

• Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

  

  Michael Shermer
  • Thinking
  • Natural
  • Explanation