Alan Sokal quotes

Alan Sokal quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : Alan Sokal (2010). “Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture”, p.141, OUP Oxford

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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

Source : Alan D. Sokal (2008). “Beyond the hoax: science, philosophy and culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Source : Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books

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“Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?”
-- Alan Sokal

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