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“Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.” — Richard Feynman

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle

Quote of the Week: “…that it is the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked,...

“All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts...

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World (1932)

Quote of the Week: “If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him.."— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the...

Quote of the Week: “…turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics."— Richard Feynman,

Quote of the Week: “…science as a method of finding things out. This method is based on the principle that observation is the judge of whether something is so or not. All other aspects and characteristics of science can...

Quote of the Week: “We have a way of checking whether an idea is correct or not that has nothing to do with where it came from. We simply test it against observation. So, in science we are not interested in where an idea...

Quote of the Week: “[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.” — Thomas Henry Huxley,...

Quote of the Week: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.” — Albert Einstein (1931) Retort to the book “A Hundred Authors Against Einstein.”