“The freedom is really free only happened in this life: after life is pseudo freedom” — Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung Copy Share Image
“Sen. Claire McCaskill Brings Down the Hammer on Pseudoscience-Purveyor Dr.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely. — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“When explicit thinking patterns were in charge, light waves of particular lengths were thought to stimulate Jenny’s optical nerve, changing hue of… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Isaac Asimov’s remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: ‘Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
“I challenge the popular notions out there that are so often rooted in pseudoscience. I offer comfort to expectant and new mothers… — Amy Tuteur Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“And so come the cults, claiming to meet the needs that science has thus far failed to meet--and offering the prospective inductee… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is almost always recognizable from a distance, and easy to confirm on close examination. Science is, however, not immune from hubris,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 The national discussion regarding the veridical truth of memories of childhood abuse will have a beneficial… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“TAT: I find I'm still left wanting to know how to tell if my patient has false memory syndrome. What's the test?… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“science makes progress not by proving its theories right-because that's impossible-but by eliminating an increasing number of wrong theories. Pseudoscience, however, does… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
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![“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to compete head on with evolution. One of the main things they [intelligent design creationists] have learned is what not to say. A major element of their…” quote by Robert T. Pennock](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/45e/robert-t-pennock-94367_evolution_intelligent-design-theorists-have-learne_1617834.jpg)
