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Tag Name "Unscientific" (28)

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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
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Alfred Korzybski
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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
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Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.
Ernest Holmes
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In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
Jane Goodall
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A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
Karl Jaspers
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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
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U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.
Max Baucus
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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
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It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
Ray Comfort
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Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.
Ray Comfort
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
Terry Eagleton
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To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
Vladimir Lenin
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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
Wernher von Braun
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
William Proxmire
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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
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Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.
Allan Bloom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
Ludwig von Mises
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How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
Muriel Lester
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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
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