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

“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…

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

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

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire

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 what’s true. But you…

“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…

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is…

A Lie by omission is just as bad as a Lie by commission. – Elizabeth A. Reeves

Nobody understands quantum mechanics.

Mathematics is the Language of Science

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…

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)