Alan Sokal

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows…

— Alan Sokal

“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its…

— Alan Sokal

“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not…

— Alan Sokal

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

— Alan Sokal

“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what…

— Alan Sokal

“We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is…

— Alan Sokal

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that…

— Alan Sokal

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

— Alan Sokal

“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring…

— Alan Sokal