Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image
I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite… — Stephen Fry 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
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa… — Edmund Clarence Stedman 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
Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They… — Chris DiBona Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image