As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
A general must be a charlatan.
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse. " It isn't.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes