Absurd Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

“And so come the cults, claiming to meet the needs that science has thus far failed to meet--and offering the prospective inductee a place…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more…

— Bertrand Russell

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

— Maria Mitchell

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their ignorance as…

— Ben Goldacre

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments…

— Martin Guevara Urbina

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use…

— Herbert J. Muller

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan