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“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”...

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance---that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire

“But it turns out that falsehood and evil can be taught as easily as good. Education is a great power, but it can work either way.” — Richard Feynman,

“IPCC is one of the worst sources of scientific misinformation.” — John Clauser, Nobel laurate in Physics (2022) [H/t Willie Soon]

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