Top 100 Quotes About Bad Science
#1. When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.
Lewis N. Roe
#2. Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.
Martin Gardner
#3. I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
Gardner Dozois
#4. There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
Theodore Hesburgh
#5. I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.
James L. Cambias
#6. Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer
#7. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
Paul Gibbons
#8. People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.
Eugenie Scott
#9. Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.
Michael Pollan
#10. Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
#12. Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
John Coleman
#13. The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.
Steven Novella
#14. It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.
Phil Plait
#15. Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out.
"It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of that phrase matters too."
"But you're making it bad science fiction," Hester said. "And we have to live in it.
John Scalzi
#16. 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
#17. There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Beatrice Warde
#18. It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.
Laura Gilpin
#19. Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".
David Stewart
#20. I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
Ian Bremmer
#21. Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#22. There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
Hal Abelson
#23. I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.
G.H. Hardy
#24. ... sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need answering, rather than the tools available to you.
Ben Goldacre
#25. We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.
Phillip E. Johnson
#26. I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
Nalo Hopkinson
#27. We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no
artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,
and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
Robert M. Pirsig
#28. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.(p.115)
Malcolm Gladwell
#29. Remembering the good has also resurrected the bad.
Siobhan Davis
#30. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#31. I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Daniel Radcliffe
#32. We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
David Sarnoff
#33. A metric fuckton of dumb so epically mind-destroyingly beyond a bad idea that there's not a chance they would go there.
Andrea K. Host
#34. The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.
Paul Di Filippo
#35. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#36. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
#37. [Non-flammable? Challenge accepted.]
[Alan], I texted, [arson is bad.]
[It's in the spirit of academic inquiry! It's SCIENCE!]
['Science' is not a legal defense.]
[Damn them.]
K.D. Sarge
#38. One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
Stephen King
#39. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.
Aristotle.
#40. I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.
Richard E. Leakey
#41. I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
China Mieville
#42. If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
Bill Vaughan
#43. I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
Karl Schroeder
#44. Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There's no longer a need for the social construct of religion.
David G. McAfee
#45. It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Paul Farmer
#46. Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.
Jonathan Morris
#47. Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
Patricia Briggs
#48. Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God.
Greg Graffin
#49. What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
#50. Science does not deal with subjective experience ... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
Terence McKenna
#51. Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,
Fred Thompson
#52. [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
H.L. Mencken
#53. Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver
#54. UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.
Jurgen Habermas
#56. I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.
Robert Burns Woodward
#57. I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
Steven Pinker
#58. Bad philosophy before the Enlightenment was typically of the because-I-say-so variety. When the Enlightenment liberated philosophy and science, they both began to make progress, and increasingly there was good philosophy. But, paradoxically, bad philosophy became worse.
David Deutsch
#59. Sometimes, the idea that science is a neutral, careful, bias-avoiding discipline has a bad day.
Michael Brooks
#60. You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.
Richard Dawkins
#61. I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.
Drew Roy
#62. If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Henry David Thoreau
#63. Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.
Hideo Kojima
#64. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
Paul Gibbons
#65. People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.
Peter F. Hamilton
#66. She shrugged noncommittally. "Not bad."
Kyle scoffed. "Not bad? Counselor, there are two things I've got mad skills at: And computer science is the other one.
Julie James
#67. She pressed her lips together and held his gaze, then shook her head as if all out of arguments. "You're really going to do it then. You're going to drive an asteroid to Earth. You're going to be the bad guy who kills everyone. You're actually going to finish what the Icefall started.
Walt Stone
#68. In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Frank Herbert
#69. Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?
Has science killed God?
R.J. Hogarth
#70. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#71. The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature - it's not bad for them if a paper turns out to be wrong, if it's gotten a lot of attention.
Michael Eisen
#72. A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.
Nick Lane
#73. Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.
Scott Adams
#74. People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
George Coyne
#75. In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but ... vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works ... the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.
Mark Christensen
#76. Making LDL the "bad cholesterol" oversimplified the science considerably, but it managed to salvage two decades' worth of research, and to justify why physicians had bothered to measure total cholesterol in their patients.
Gary Taubes
#77. The Walker towered over him like a half-built skyscraper with a bad attitude. Its bulbous silver head was home to so many weapons that Nick couldn't even count them. He couldn't even name half of them.
Peter James West
#78. I smile. Not just at bad clowns, but at "library science." I like that name. It makes a library sound as vast and mysterious as the universe or the ocean, requiring specific study to be understood.
Deb Caletti
#79. [Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)
Saul Tanpepper
#80. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
Gilles Menage
#82. We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
Henry Rollins
#83. That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.
Michael Crichton
#84. Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context.
Jonathan Lethem
#86. To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.
Isaac Asimov
#87. Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
Seth MacFarlane
#89. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#91. I know you think I am a bad
boy, a bad dog, Bang-Bang told him
with a pointed stare. He placed his
paw in his Tall One's hand. But
know that I am with you. That I will
not leave you.
Susan Grant
#92. Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.
Paul Gibbons
#93. All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
Sylvia Earle
#94. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.
Donald J. Trump
#96. Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. "Dammit!" he says again with more feeling. "Why does stuff like this keep happening?"
"You say that as if it's a bad thing," Rob says, smirking.
Laura Kreitzer
#97. One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.
J.Z. Colby
#98. He argues that science cannot provide the means by which to judge whether its technological inventions are good or bad for human beings. To do that, we must know what a good human person is, and science cannot adjudicate morality or define such a thing.
Timothy J. Keller
#99. It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
Terry Pratchett
#100. All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.
Bernardino Ramazzini
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