Quote #115

Yet the final indictment against the television decision-makers is more profound and more serious. Their recent splurge of paranormalism debauches true science and undermines the efforts of their own excellent science departments. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudo-scientific charlatans. The public appetite for wonder can be fed, through the powerful medium of television, without compromising the principles of honesty and reason.

More from Richard Dawkins

  1. Consider this. If a paranormalist could really give an unequivocal demonstration of telepathy (precognition, psychokinesis, reincarnation, …
  2. If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an…
  3. Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the ?740,000 reward of Jame…
  4. It's obvious that in an intelligent educated audience such as this university, I stress this university. Who saw fit to give them accredita…
  5. Yet scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must …
  6. The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an…
  7. Scorpio could go retrograde up Uranus and it wouldn't make any difference.
  8. Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot…

All Richard Dawkins quotes