“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle
Category: Climate News Roundup
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 #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…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #674
Quote of the Week: “I haye already placed before the Royal Society an account of some experiments which brought to light the remarkable fact that the body of our atmosphere,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #673
Quote of the Week: “Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said: God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #672
Quote of the Week: “The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #671
“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #670
Quote of the Week: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”— Johannes Kepler
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #669
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]