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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…

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…

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.”

Quote of the Week: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”  — Richard Feynman [H/t Francis Menton]

Quote of the Week: “Insight must precede application.”

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…

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,…

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…

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…

“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck

Quote of the Week: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”— Johannes Kepler

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]

Quote of the Week: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison

“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)

Quote of the Week: “As a scientist I do not have much faith in predictions. Science is organized unpredictability. The best scientists like to arrange things in an experiment to…

Quote of the Week: “For my many mentors, who taught me the importance of scientific integrity.”— Steven E. Koonin, dedication in Unsettled?

Quote of the Week: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems…

The Week That Was: 2025-09-13 (September 13, 2025)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The right to search for truth implies also…

[Editor’s note. This is last week’s Climate and Energy Roundup, which wasn’t posted during the failed attempt at a website update] The Week That Was: 2025-08-30 (August 30, 2025)Brought to…

Quote of the Week: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able…