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Quote of the Week: “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels…If it is consensus, it isn’t science.  If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.”

Quote of the Week: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure...

“It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg...

Quote of the Week: “We can always prove a definite theory wrong. Notice however that we never prove it right.” — Richard Feynman (1964)

Quote of the Week: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it...

Quote of the Week: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you...

Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model...

Quote of the Week: “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison (1788)

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning ... People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.” – Richard Feynman, "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture...

Quote of the Week: “Beware the Ides of March” — Soothsayer to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Quote of the Week: “Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.” — Richard Feynman, The...

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has...

Quote of the Week: “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....

Quote of the Week: “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.” — Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Quote of the Week: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of questions investigated...