The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots…

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

— Trevor Baylis

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

— Steve Sheinkin

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people…

— James Purefoy

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

— John Derbyshire

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

— Kristin Cashore

“Alas, some of those crackpots will only be eliminated by something lethal, such as a firing squad. The best we can do unless you…

— Andrew Williams

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The…

— Ellen Willis

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

— Mark Twain

Jesus was a crackpot.

— Rajneesh

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when…

— Harry S. Truman

When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids,…

— Jack LaLanne

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are…

— C. Wright Mills

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because…

— Freeman Dyson

“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a…

— Joyce Cary

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite…

— Ann Coulter