Michael Shermer citáty

Michael Brant Shermer je americký historik vedy.

Preslávil sa najmä ako zakladateľ The Skeptics Society, ktorá bojuje proti pseudovedám a iracionalizmu. Je šéfredaktorom jej časopisu Skeptic. Spoločnosť aj časopis Shermer založil v roku 1992, k roku 2008 mala už 55 tisíc členov a pobočky po celom svete. Označuje sa za ateistu a humanistu. Wikipedia  

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“We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.”

quoted in [Berger, Kevin, August 23, 2006, http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/23/shermer/print.html, "The joys of life without God", Salon.com, 2006-08-26]

“So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.”

Describing "Young-Earth" Creationist Duane T Gish's last debate of his career (which was against Shermer), in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 3, 2001, quoted from E-Skeptic http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/quote-s4.htm for June 3, 2001

“My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.”

Michael Shermer kniha The Science of Good and Evil

[Shermer, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule, 1st edition, 2004, Times Books, New York, ISBN 0805075208, 18]

“The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.”

[Shermer, Michael, July, 2008, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results, How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results, Scientific American, 2008-07-24]