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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. -- Anton Chekhov
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. -- Jimmy Wales
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers. -- Ada Lovelace
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling. -- George Eliot
People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me -- they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive. -- Jack LaLanne
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans. -- Dan Hicks
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. -- Mordecai Richler
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. -- Emma Goldman
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given. -- Emma Goldman
To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time. -- Vivian Gornick
Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit. -- Scott Ritter
No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. -- Carl Sagan
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. -- Harold Bloom
I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that. -- Ann Coulter
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues. -- Bertrand Russell
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan. -- Orson Welles
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. -- Simon McBurney
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. -- Thomas Sowell
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else. -- Simon McBurney
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. -- Charles Bronson
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. -- Ben Stein
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans. -- Noam Chomsky
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes -- Charles Francis Richter
The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly. -- Honore de Balzac
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. -- Richard Dawkins
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans. -- Michio Kaku
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it. -- Maimonides
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men. -- Chris Murray
It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts. -- Chris Murray
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there. -- Meir Shalev
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. -- Napoleon Hill
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. -- Luther Burbank

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