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Quote by Michael Shermer
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. – Michael Shermer

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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer

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Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of lifes caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known. – Michael Shermer

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Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best. – Robert H. Austin

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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. – James Cameron

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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. – John Charles Polanyi

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. – Bill Dana

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There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. – C.G. Jung

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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. – Jack Kevorkian

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You cant blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. – James Thurber

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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

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