Damage Quote by James D. Watson

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people…

— Martin Gardner

“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. Its…

— Nicholas Wade

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is almost always recognizable from a distance, and easy to confirm on close examination. Science is, however, not immune from hubris, and bad…

— K Lee Lerner

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever…

— Albert Memmi

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science…

— E. O. Wilson

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

“The assault on the human world in the name of science is more pseudo-science than science, and rejoices in its bald, unmoralised image of…

— Roger Scruton