"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted…

— Alberto Manguel

“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave…

— Angus Stevenson

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

— Peter Baynham

People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant and confident…

— Catherine Wilson

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all…

— Joe Flanigan

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

— Mark Kac

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough…

— William Hazlitt

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these…

— Stephen Fry

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

— June Brown

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon