Michael Shermer Quotes

• Las personas inteligentes creen cosas raras porque son hábiles defendiendo creencias a las que llegaron por razones no inteligentes.

  Michael Shermer

  Inteligente, Creer, Gente

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks

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• En los últimos 10.000 años, los humanos han ideado unas 100.000 religiones basadas en unos 2.500 dioses. Así que la única diferencia entre los creyentes y yo es que yo soy escéptico de 2.500 dioses, mientras que ellos lo son de 2.499 dioses. Sólo nos falta un Dios para estar totalmente de acuerdo.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Atheist

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• 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, Verbs, Way

  "Why people believe weird things". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2006.

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• I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Want

  Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.2, Macmillan

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• La fe religiosa depende de una serie de factores sociales, psicológicos y emocionales que poco o nada tienen que ver con las probabilidades, las pruebas y la lógica.

  Michael Shermer

  Fe, Religión, Emoción

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• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  Michael Shermer

  Animal, Stories, Patterns

  "Out of This World" by Michael Shermer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 21, 1999.

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• En ciencia, todas las conclusiones son provisionales, sujetas a nuevas pruebas y mejores argumentos, la antítesis misma de la fe religiosa.

  Michael Shermer

  Fe, Religión, Argumento

  Michael Shermer (2010). "Fricción científica: Where the Known Meets the Unknown", p.197, Macmillan

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• De hecho, la fe consiste en creer sin tener en cuenta las pruebas, que es la antítesis misma de la ciencia.

  Michael Shermer

  Ateo, Creer, Hechos

  Michael Shermer (2003). "Cómo creemos: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God", p.407, Macmillan

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• Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Thinking, Training

  Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.63, Macmillan

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• There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Belief

  Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.271, Macmillan

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• In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

  Michael Shermer

  Correr, Largo, Mundo

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Hermoso, Espiritual, Lucha

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• Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

  Michael Shermer

  Motivational, Stories, Morality

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company

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• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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• People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Simple, Hard Times

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• Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

  Michael Shermer

  Morality, Intolerance, Absolutes

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• O el alma sobrevive a la muerte o no, y no hay pruebas científicas de que lo haga.

  Michael Shermer

  Alma, Doe, Pruebas

  Michael Shermer (2016). "Escéptico: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye", p.260, Henry Holt and Company.

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• I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Want, Skeptic

  Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.2, Macmillan

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• Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Knowing, Tolerance

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• 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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• Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

  Michael Shermer

  Emotional, Religion, Atheism

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• In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

  Michael Shermer

  Ideas, Determine, Ifs

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.41, Henry Holt and Company

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• 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

  Motivación, Creer, Inspiración

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• Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

  Michael Shermer

  Epic, Age, Stories

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.161, Macmillan

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• Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Brain, Survival, Machines

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