“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” — Albert Einstein
Category: Climate News Roundup
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #697
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #696
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain [H/t Don Healy]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #695
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” —Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #694
Quote of the Week: “In scientific debate, it is neither power nor authority that should carry decisive weight, but only scientific truth itself” — Ferenc Deák, 1803−1876, Hungarian Stateman [H/t…
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…