Pseudoscience Quotes

17 quotes by 11 authors

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan
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
Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely. — Ivar Giaever
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
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: