“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have… — Adelle Davis Copy Share Image
A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots. — Joey Bishop Copy Share Image
When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot. — Shlomo Riskin Copy Share Image
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
