Michael Shermer Quotes

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

Science is the search for truth.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is nothing but perception.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There are no secrets in science.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is not wisdom.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.