Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
Michael ShermerIn the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
Michael ShermerThe fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.
Michael ShermerMysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
Michael ShermerAs Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.
Michael Shermer