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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).

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

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

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

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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