Alan Sokal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.
-- Alan Sokal

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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).
-- Alan Sokal

#Believe #Science #Law
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
-- Alan Sokal

#Doe #Labels #Virtue
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
-- Alan Sokal

#Self #Achievement #Political

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

Alan Sokal famous quotes

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