Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it’s going to tank if you don’t have the evidence and support for it. Michael Shermer Read Quote
Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life. Michael Shermer Read Quote
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. Michael Shermer Read Quote
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. Michael Shermer Read Quote
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life’s caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known. Michael Shermer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. Michael Shermer Read Quote
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process. Michael Shermer Read Quote
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life’s pilgrimage. Michael Shermer Read Quote
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. Michael Shermer Read Quote
