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"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)

“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...

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources...

The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind...

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." — Benjamin Franklin (1722)

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of very great...

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact." — Thomas Huxley

It is found that even ·an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 , which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce an increase in the surface temperature of less than 2 °K...

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”