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Quote of the Week: “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” — Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” —Albert Einstein

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…

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…

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new..” — Albert Einstein

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle

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…

“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…

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World (1932)

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…

Quote of the Week: “…turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.”— Richard Feynman,

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]