Aleksandr Zinovyev: Quotes about science

Aleksandr Zinovyev was Russian writer. Explore interesting quotes on science.
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“Marxism emerged not only with the intention of explaining scientifically everything in the world, but in addition to this, as a representative of the ‘hurt and injured’ classes of the world, expressing thus the centuries old dream of an earthly paradise. But dreams and wishes have nothing to do with science.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

“The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism’s attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

“Unlike science, an ideology is constructed of conventional ambiguous expressions, which require interpretation. It is impossible to verify or experimentally confirm an ideological statement, one cannot refute these for they are meaningless. […] While arising, an ideology may have pretensions to be scientific. But having become an ideology, it loses all the major characteristics of science.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

“Marxism disguises itself as science and owing to this it is easier for Marxism to portray the existing society as acting on the basis of scientific laws of his history, to portray the leadership’s selfishness and idiocy as ingenious scientific foresight etc.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

“All in all, Engels talked so much rot of every kind, that now all the world’s academies of science should be directed to rectify his mistakes and idiocies.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)