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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.

Alan Sokal

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.

Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal

Born: January 24, 1955 (age 71)

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:

Fashionable Nonsense (1997)
Beyond the Hoax (2008)

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