Pseudoscience Vs Science Quotes

#1. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Rudolf Carnap

#2. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

Paul Gibbons

#3. By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

Janet Jackson

#4. Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!

Pat Buchanan

#5. It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Jonathan Maberry

#6. Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.

Paul Gibbons

#7. Oh! thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!

Herman Melville

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

Carl Sagan

#9. It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance
betokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absence of skepticism, a need to replace experiments by desires.

Carl Sagan

#10. What is there about you to adore? Who in this world do you care about, besides yourself? You're a pretty face, but you're empty inside. You don't even know what you want. You're just waiting for someone to give it to you.

Sarah Cross

#11. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste

Paul Gibbons

#12. Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

Lewis Mumford

#13. 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?

Carl Sagan

#14. Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

Craig Ferguson

#15. Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.

Paul Gibbons

#16. I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

#17. I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

Lizz Wright

#18. Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#19. I'll never love anyone the way I love you, Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#20. A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.

A.E. Samaan

#22. You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

Michel Foucault

#23. Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.

Ben Goldacre

#24. Ted said, "You're working for the Order now." "Yes." "How does it feel?" "Well, Doctor, it feels rather sore and tingly.

Ilona Andrews

#25. The truth is, who wouldn't fall for you, when you are like the brightest star on the darkest night? You shine with a love as big as the galaxy.

Jenna Roads

#26. Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Paul Gibbons

#27. Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.

Carl Sagan

#28. Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

James D. Watson

#29. For a hot second I actually want to hit him. Did he think it didn't kill me to watch her walk away? I pull in a calming breath. Calm. I'm always calm. "She threw down an argument I had no solution for.

Kristen Callihan

#30. I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.

Ben Goldacre