Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #639

Quote of the Week: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638

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]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #637

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #636

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning … People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.” – Richard Feynman, “What is…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #635

Quote of the Week: “Beware the Ides of March” — Soothsayer to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #634

Quote of the Week: “Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?” I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #633

“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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #632

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #631

Quote of the Week: “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #630

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #629

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #628

“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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #627

Quote of the Week: “It is not unscientific to take a guess, although many people who are not in science believe that it is.”  — Richard Feynman

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #626

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)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625

Quote of the Week: “… as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #624

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #623

“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…

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #622

“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #622

“Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.” – Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes (1949)