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

Quote of the Week: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”  — Richard Feynman [H/t Francis Menton]

Quote of the Week: “Insight must precede application.”

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