What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?
Michael ShermerThe fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.
Michael ShermerRationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
Michael ShermerThe 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