Michael Shermer Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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.

• Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Animal, Wind

• People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.116, Macmillan

• It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

  Michael Shermer

  Moving, Angel, Animal

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.141, Macmillan

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