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But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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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

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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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

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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

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We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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I meddled in things that man must leave alone. ↗

— R. C. Sherriff

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