"Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training." ― Michael Shermer Topic(s): Science More From Michael Shermer "Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion." "Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life’s caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known." "But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper." More In Science "Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs."― Stanislav Grof "Science is facts."― Henri Poincare "With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be."― Dwight Schultz