Category: Climate News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”— Johannes Kepler

Quote of the Week: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, [H/t National Center for Energy Analytics]

Quote of the Week: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison

“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)

Quote of the Week: “As a scientist I do not have much faith in predictions. Science is organized unpredictability. The best scientists like to arrange things in an experiment to…

Quote of the Week: “For my many mentors, who taught me the importance of scientific integrity.”— Steven E. Koonin, dedication in Unsettled?

Quote of the Week: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems…

The Week That Was: 2025-09-13 (September 13, 2025)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The right to search for truth implies also…

[Editor’s note. This is last week’s Climate and Energy Roundup, which wasn’t posted during the failed attempt at a website update] The Week That Was: 2025-08-30 (August 30, 2025)Brought to…

Quote of the Week: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able…

Quote of the Week: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”— Winston Churchill,…

Quote of the Week: “The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.” — Max Planck, The Universe in…

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.” — Max Planck in The Meaning of Causality in Physics (1953)

Quote of the Week: “”It would be illegitimate and would rob our calculation of its basis if unsuccessful results were not all brought into the account.” ― Ronald Fisher (1890-1962)…

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ― Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to…

Quote of the Week: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (1998)