"Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training."

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Source : Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.63, Macmillan

Michael Shermer

#Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Training Quotes

“Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.”
“Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.”
“I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.”
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”
“I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.”
“The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life”
“Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.”
“The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or had a miscarriage? Or a gay person whose partner has died? Or an elderly person who has lost every friend and relative? So many heartaches can't be found in the dictionary.”

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