Alan Sokal Quotes

• 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

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

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• 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

  Jobs, Believe, Objective Truth

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

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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

  Doe, Labels, Virtue

  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

  Self, Achievement, Political

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