Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #693

Quote of the Week: “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #691

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #691

Quote of the Week: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new..” — Albert Einstein

Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #690

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein

Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #689

Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #688

“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #687

Quote of the Week: “…that it is the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #686

“All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.” — Richard…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #685

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World (1932)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #684

Quote of the Week: “If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #683

Quote of the Week: “…turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.”— Richard Feynman,

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #682

Quote of the Week: “…science as a method of finding things out. This method is based on the principle that observation is the judge of whether something is so or…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #681

Quote of the Week: “We have a way of checking whether an idea is correct or not that has nothing to do with where it came from. We simply test…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #680

Quote of the Week: “[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #679

Quote of the Week: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.” — Albert Einstein (1931) Retort to the book “A Hundred Authors Against Einstein.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #678

Quote of the Week: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”  — Richard Feynman [H/t Francis Menton]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #677

Quote of the Week: “Insight must precede application.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #676

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”  — Mark Twain

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #675

Quote of the Week: “I know you think you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I…