climate news roundup, Tag

Quote of the Week: “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), American historian, the 12th Librarian of the United States Congress

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." — Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

Quote of the Week: “This freedom to doubt is an important matter in the sciences and, I believe, in other fields. It was born of a struggle. It was a struggle to be permitted to doubt, to be unsure. And I do not want us...

“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 make clear the entire situation. You make clear...

“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 make clear the entire situation. You make...

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”— Leonardo da Vinci, (1452–1519)

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”– Richard Feynman [H/t William Readdy]

“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 the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”...

“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 contempt prior to investigation.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire

“But it turns out that falsehood and evil can be taught as easily as good. Education is a great power, but it can work either way.” — Richard Feynman,

“IPCC is one of the worst sources of scientific misinformation.” — John Clauser, Nobel laurate in Physics (2022) [H/t Willie Soon]