“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #564
Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #555
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #543
The Week That Was: 2023-03-11 (March 11, 2023Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So I hope you can accept Nature as…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #537
“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.” —Richard Feynman, Lectures on Gravitation.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #531
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”― Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #525
And it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have doubt, we then propose looking in new ideas.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #513
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #511
Experience keeps a dear [expensive] school, yet Fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1743 [H/t Zero Hedge]
Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #505
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. – Erwin Schrödinger:…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #483
“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.” – John Tyndall, 1877.
Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #474
Quote of the Week: “Nullius in verba” – The Royal Society [UK]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #453
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Nicolaus Copernicus
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” —Thomas Paine (1776)
Chaos and Weather
The pioneering study of Lorenz in 1963 and a follow-up presentation in 1972 changed our view on the predictability of weather by revealing the so-called butterfly effect, also known as…
Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #398
The Week That Was: 2020-02-08 (February 8, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Judges ought to be more leaned…
Epidemiology, Diet Soda and Climate Science
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen – 6 October 2019 “Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #374
The Week That Was: 2019-08-31 (August 31, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: What I cannot create, I do…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #373
The Week That Was: 2019-08-24 (August 24, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I learned very early the difference…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup # 372
The Week That Was: 2019-08-17 (August 17, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There are two ways to be…
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