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 th…

- Alan Sokal

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

- Alan Sokal

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 apa…

- Alan Sokal