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“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...

“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.

“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.”

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

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, or to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.

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. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a...

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources...

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 of utter honesty — 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)