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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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• 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

• Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Moments

• 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

• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends

• 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

• A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • Reflection

• 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

• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Relationships
  • Man Is
  • Tied

• And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Life is
  • Tasting

• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • People
  • School
  • Problem

• I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Knowing

• 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