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“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 and not question the basic narrative.” – Richard...

As we all know, climate questions can be tricky and the answers are often controversial.  Luckily, we have access to the New York Times’ feature titled Ask NYT Climate.

“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, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is...

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.