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“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”  — Mark Twain

Quote of the Week: “I know you think you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”— Robert J. McCloskey

Quote of the Week: “I haye already placed before the Royal Society an account of some experiments which brought to light the remarkable fact that the body of our atmosphere, that is to say the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen...

Quote of the Week: “Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said: God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly wrong. The quantum effects of black holes...

Quote of the Week: “The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.”— Max Planck,...

“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck

Quote of the Week: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”— Johannes Kepler

Quote of the Week: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, [H/t National Center for Energy Analytics]

“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.’" — Max Planck

This TWTW begins with an essay by SEPP director David Legates rebutting a claim that today’s complex global climate models accurately forecast climate...

Quote of the Week: “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas Edison

“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)

Quote of the Week: “As a scientist I do not have much faith in predictions. Science is organized unpredictability. The best scientists like to arrange things in an experiment to be as unpredictable as possible, and then...

Quote of the Week: “But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”...

Quote of the Week: “For my many mentors, who taught me the importance of scientific integrity.”— Steven E. Koonin, dedication in Unsettled?