We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
Michael ShermerWhat 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 human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
Michael Shermer