#sci

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#cheated #could #grandma #luck #more

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#earth #gasoline #get #needed #off

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

— Michael Shermer

#because #live #myths #our #preoccupation

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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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

#internet #lies #longer #open #paper

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

— Michael Shermer

#only #pattern #proper #recognition #science

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#does #either #evidence #scientific #scientific evidence

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

— Michael Shermer

#celestial #god #lab #leading #makes

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

#bits #data #evolution #fields #happened

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

#arrow #causal #consciousness #emergence #exploring