Pseudoscience Quotes
17 quotes by 11 authors
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
— Carl Sagan
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.
— Ivar Giaever
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and…
— Jane Jacobs
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It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort…
— Isaac Asimov
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How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of…
— Peter Medawar
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The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites…
— Carl Sagan
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from…
— Carl Sagan
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Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
— Phil Plait
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I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue…
— Jay Griffiths
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Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad…
— Carl Sagan
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Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security…
— Richard Dawkins
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In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
— Carl Sagan
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You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you…
— Michel Foucault
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Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't…
— Tom Cruise
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has…
— Carl Sagan
Who Wrote These Pseudoscience Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 17 Pseudoscience Quotes as follows: