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 family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

  

  Aristotle
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Association

• I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Hate

• I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

  

  Jensen Ackles

• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • True
  • Happy

• 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