Quotes from Alan Cromer

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

Scientific journals must remain the preserve of articles capable of affecting the consensus of the scientific public. Books are the place for opinions, speculations, and fanciful accounts of ricocheting planets.

The ages thirteen to fifteen are a time of great intellectual development and energy that is largely wasted in the United States. Students this age in other countries work much harder than Americans, thereby putting Americans permanently behind.

The barbarian looter and the religious zealot are alike in their penchant for destroying what they don't understand.

A four-year-old may believe that her thoughts also have the power to affect what happens to others, and so she will feel guilty should misfortune befall someone about whom she has had an angry thought.