Alan Sokal Quotes
When scientific research is increasingly funded by private corporations that have a financial interest in particular outcomes of that research—is the drug effective or not?—scientific objectivity is undermined. When universities are more interested in patent royalties than in the open sharing of scientific information, the public suffers. There are hundreds of important political and economic issues surrounding science and technology. Sociology of science, at its best, has done much to clarify these issues. But sloppy sociology, like sloppy science, is useless or even counterproductive.[Alan Sokal
Quotes to Explore
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon -
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles -
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
Eddie Redmayne -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
Parker Posey -
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer -
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Ted Williams -
I have learned how to better handle things as they come.
Victoria Azarenka -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
Kate Bush -
Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
Gary Johnson -
I'm a huge poster collector.
Illeana Douglas -
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
Daisy Ridley -
I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
Amy Poehler -
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
Tacitus -
You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.
Billy Squier -
We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.
Uday Kiran -
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.
Tony Blair -
When scientific research is increasingly funded by private corporations that have a financial interest in particular outcomes of that research—is the drug effective or not?—scientific objectivity is undermined. When universities are more interested in patent royalties than in the open sharing of scientific information, the public suffers. There are hundreds of important political and economic issues surrounding science and technology. Sociology of science, at its best, has done much to clarify these issues. But sloppy sociology, like sloppy science, is useless or even counterproductive.[
Alan Sokal