A Lie by omission is just as bad as a Lie by commission. – Elizabeth A. Reeves
This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the...
…if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, because we would know what is true. So, what we call scientific knowledge today is a body of statements...
“And it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have the doubt, we then propose looking in new directions for new ideas. The rate of the development...
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, or to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.
Nobody understands quantum mechanics.
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” ― Richard P. Feynman
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to...
Mathematics is the Language of Science
“The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science.”
"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." — James Wilson (1790)
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a...
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
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