Unscientific Quotes

#1. A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Karl Jaspers

#2. Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

Elisha Gray

#3. I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

Vaclav Havel

#4. If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and thoughtless belief that nothing created everything. So, what is it that you believe? Is it that something created everything? Then you are not an atheist, because you believe in a Creator.

Ray Comfort

#5. You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

Dalai Lama

#6. Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That

Thomas S. Kuhn

#7. At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - Attributed to John H. "Doc" Holliday

Mary Doria Russell

#8. Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Terry Eagleton

#9. The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Charisse Montgomery

#11. It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

Shirley Jackson

#13. An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.

Mark Twain

#14. Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.

Ernest Holmes

#15. I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. The heart [is] an organ that I find, if you have faith and know how to surrender to it, unfolds and unfolds in a most wonderful an unscientific manner, till it becomes the vastest and most pristine wilderness in existence.

David James Duncan

#17. To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Vladimir Lenin

#18. As the science of economics ... exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. When science starts to be interpretive
it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

D.H. Lawrence

#20. Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Paul Davies

#21. We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own ... [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.

Lord Kelvin

#22. The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim
that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

Gary R. Habermas

#23. I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Chris Toumazou

#24. It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

Ray Comfort

#25. Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

Naomi Oreskes

#26. Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor
that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#28. I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

Jodi Picoult

#29. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#30. At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

Don Berliner

#31. unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking among human intellectuals, and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.

Liu Cixin

#32. While to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.

Oscar Wilde

#33. Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Bertrand Russell

#34. Foo shuddered. It had been less than an hour since the cops led Abby away and already he missed her like a severed limb. It was embarrassing. How could hormones and hydrostatic pressure make you feel like this? Love was very unscientific.

Christopher Moore

#35. Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything.

Ray Comfort

#36. Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Santosh Kalwar

#37. Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

#38. I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.

Ray Comfort

#39. This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.

Stephanie Zacharek

#40. If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

Cornelius Van Til

#41. How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Muriel Lester

#42. Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Friedrich Engels

#43. The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

William Proxmire

#44. I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

Dean Ornish

#45. I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.

Chris Smith

#46. In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.

Lauren Groff

#47. Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#48. Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.

Pal Brekke

#49. Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

Ray Comfort

#50. The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Ray Comfort

#51. Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results - of an extremely temporary nature.

Aleister Crowley

#52. No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman.

That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard.

Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari. Too much aguaje. Now the mothers use him as wet nurse.

Jessica Khoury