Cranks Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion… — Richard Dawkins
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. — C.S. Lewis
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,… — Michio Kaku
I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? — Stephen Hawking
What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who… — Michael Buerk
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists,… — Mahatma Gandhi
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method… — Allan Savory
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C.S. Lewis
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is… — C.S. Lewis
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child… — Rose Macaulay
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful;… — Martin Luther
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and… — Nicholas Stern
I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when… — Leslie Mann
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. — John Powell
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few… — Fran Kranz
There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary,… — Henry Hazlitt

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