Michael Shermer Quotes

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SciencePeopleDoingChecksChecking

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I try and borrow my mom's vintage stuff as much as she lets me - she has this amazing vintage Gucci that I love.

Jessica Springsteen

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I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

Joey Ramone

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The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

John Bercow

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I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.

Andy Kindler

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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Roger Wicker

GovernmentResearchLegalAmerica

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Jason Isbell

WorkThinkYouDoneNeverAnything

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

MotherMeSpeakKnowEverythingHow

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Dee Dee Myers

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'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.

Christopher Lloyd

MotherMeEnoughYouUnderstandShe

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.

Chuck Norris

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When I went to auditions, if I didn't know the lines, I wasn't getting the job. If I knew my lines, if I knew what I was supposed to be doing, I got the job. And it was always like that - if I'm working hard, I get the result that I'm looking for.

Shameik Moore

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