Michael Shermer Quotes

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Michael Shermer

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: September 8, 1954

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Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

John Lewis

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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

Anand Giridharadas

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

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I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I'm much cleaner than the people they like. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to think that a 70-year-old - particularly someone like Alan Bennett - would like it, because they've seen a lot of stuff.

Stewart Lee

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The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.

Bob Newhart

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On 'Queer Eye,' I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don't know when or how, so our producers make sure they don't clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.

Bobby Berk

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If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

Bryan Fuller

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Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

Arthur Herzog

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Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

Tyler Florence

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Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

Thomas Friedman

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Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

Tina Brown

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For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.

Richard Corliss

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