"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons."

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Source : Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks

Michael Shermer

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“I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.”
“Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.”
“Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.”
“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, youâ€™d get dressed up in a nurseâ€™s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as Iâ€™m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.”
“Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration.”
“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
“If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.”

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