“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement? — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is true but… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
