Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #570

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #569

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #568

I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #567

What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #566

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #564

Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #563

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates mysteries of eternity, of life, of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #562

“To know when you know something, and to know when you don’t know, that’s knowledge.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #561

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan [

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #560

“Under this method, the theory that the world is flat is true if one uses only eyesight data and does not consider the voluminous other evidence that it is round.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #558

On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #557

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #556

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #555

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #554

You can see what we are up against.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #553

The third aspect of my subject is that of science as a method of finding things out. This method is based on the principle that observation is the judge of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #552

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” – W. Edwards Deming

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #551

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” ― Benjamin Frankli

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #550

“If we could create the universe from scratch, we’d all make sure that no one ever suffered misfortunes or disadvantages. The problem is that we don’t get to create the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #549

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #548

“It is easy to forget that science offers more than a body of knowledge and a process for adding new knowledge. It tells us not only what we know but…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #547

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ― Thomas Sowell