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Quote of the Week: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”— Albert Einstein

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...

“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...

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: “It is not unscientific to take a guess, although many people who are not in science believe that it is.”  — Richard Feynman

Quote of the Week: “... as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

“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...

“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...