Pseudoscience quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?"
"The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science."
"At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion."
"The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense."
"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience."
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"I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted."