Academic Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

— Tom Hulce

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from…

— Steven Pinker

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

— Alan Wolfe

Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is…

— Charles Lapworth

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the…

— Mark Udall

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops…

— Simon Schama

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

— Norman Finkelstein

“To show the Holocaust in all its dimensions is to give a warning.”

— Zdzisław Mach

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

— Thomas Friedman

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

— Judd Apatow

“Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.”

— Margaret Atwood