Quote of the Day

“Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding—yet true—facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.”–Douglas Hofstadter

Quote of the Day

“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there… only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.” ― Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

Quote of the Day

  “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” –Isaac Asimov