Unscientific Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets. — Max Baucus
Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from… — Kirk Cameron
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… — Paul Feyerabend
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the… — Elisha Gray
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course… — Frederick Soddy
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it. — Naomi Oreskes
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues… — Pal Brekke
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.… — Christopher Cokinos
At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by… — Don Berliner
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a… — Friedrich Engels
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. — Vladimir Lenin
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most… — William Golding
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run… — Robert Andrews Millikan
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who… — Norman Macbeth
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only… — Ambrose Bierce
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what… — Elbert Hubbard

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