Unscientifically Quotes & Sayings

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness. — Amanda Craig

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep. — Debasish Mridha

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea. — William Bernbach

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help. — Paul A. Baran

If she's faking it you still have a shot at making it work [ ... ] — Alice Walsh

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture. — Al Gore

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute. — Rupert Sheldrake

Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals] ... A mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see-a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. — Percival Lowell

He prided himself on being a man without prejudice, and this itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no. — Roger Ebert

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known. — Pete Seeger

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant. — Richard Jefferies

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker. — Kevin Connolly