“If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“The nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“We are not becoming more educated; we are simply acquiring more knowledge. There is a fundamental difference between the two.”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist”
― Massimo Pigliucci
“having a Ph.D. and working in a university is neither necessary nor certainly sufficient to provide one with unquestionable authority, no matter what the subject.”
― Massimo Pigliucci