Baroque Quote by Philip K. Dick

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…

— Stephen C. Meyer

“For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is…

— Marcel Proust

“Even in science to raise fundamental questions can be very disturbing. Somebody could feel, 'I'd like to have the answer to this right away,…

— David Bohm

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

— Samuel Johnson

“An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic…

— Alfred Korzybski

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a…

— Theodor Adorno

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When…

— Michel Foucault

“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly…

— John Tyndall

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being…

— Thabo Mbeki

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

— James Mark Baldwin