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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.

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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).

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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal

Born: January 24, 1955 (age 70)
Bio: Alan David Sokal is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
Known for:
  1. Fashionable Nonsense (1997)
  2. Beyond the Hoax (2008)

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