Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that… — Michael Buerk Copy Share Image
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
