Category: Climate News Roundup

“Progress often involves the killing of an exquisite theory by an ugly fact.” — Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, The God Particle (1993)

Quote of the Week: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the…

“As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy [now called science], the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis…

Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model. [H/t Richard Lindzen]

Quote of the Week: “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and…

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer…

Quote of the Week: “Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell…

Quote of the Week: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of questions investigated. Neither may…

Quote of the Week: “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…

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical…

Quote of the Week:  I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything. — Richard Feynman (1981)

“What I learned: If you want to get a narrative established, the crucial thing is to pepper it with errors, questionable things. So that the critics will seize on those…