Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians
— Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov (the head of the Space Research Laboratory at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory and one of the world’s most eminent critics of the notion that man made CO2 is driving global warming)
The public is never told that these models are merely “stories”, or speculative “what if” scenarios. Just the opposite. It is the models and the stories they tell that have convinced much of the public that the consequences, if global warming does come true, will be so grave that we really should be better safe than sorry.
— Lawrence Solomon, author of “The Deniers” on the subject of computer models and “forecasting” climate change
Science is not, nor ever has been, about consensus, but about experimental and observational data and testable hypotheses.
— Dr. Robert M. Carter
Novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
— Thomas Kuhn author of “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” who coined the phrase “paradigm shift” and won a Nobel prize
Life’s simple.. if u think u ca do it (ur right).. if u think u cant do it.. ur right :)
— #71 Walter Jones (Seattle Seahawks all-world left tackle)
I’m watching you 59
— referee’s remark to Aaron Curry “playing to the echo of the whistle”
Accidents drive scientific discovery, confusion does not.
— Thomas S. Kuhn
If it moves - tax it!
If it still moves - regulate it!
If it stops moving - subsidize it!
— Ronald Reagan (deceased US president)
A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications. A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.
— Seth Godin in “Tribes”
