Best quotes from Scientists

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SizeMatters said:
He seems to love belittling those who are flat earthers. I agree with it.
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A lot of those are in the rather sizeable camp that hold back climate action. Abusing and belittling them (apart from being bigotted and just a generally shitty thing for a person to do) further alienates them from the facts and science of climate change, which creates further barriers to action.

Without trying to introduce politics in it all, it's the same narrative as to how Trump took power in the US.
 
Chrizzt said:
A lot of those are in the rather sizeable camp that hold back climate action. Abusing and belittling them (apart from being bigotted and just a generally shitty thing for a person to do) further alienates them from the facts and science of climate change, which creates further barriers to action.

Without trying to introduce politics in it all, it's the same narrative as to how Trump took power in the US.
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I think the majority of the idiots who post crap to his twitter are just trolls looking for Cox to bite back.
 

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Chrizzt said:
A lot of those are in the rather sizeable camp that hold back climate action. Abusing and belittling them (apart from being bigotted and just a generally shitty thing for a person to do) further alienates them from the facts and science of climate change, which creates further barriers to action.
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You'll never get consensus on global warming from science, as it is a spiritual thing, that needs addressing spiritually. Western Science has yet to be able to apply its knowledge spiritually. It needs to separate ego.
 
little graham said:
You'll never get consensus on global warming from science, as it is a spiritual thing, that needs addressing spiritually. Western Science has yet to be able to apply its knowledge spiritually. It needs to separate ego.
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With an argument like that you could be elected to the Australian senate.
Please move to the conspiracy board.
 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

I also quite like this one:
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." - Stephen Leacock
 
SizeMatters said:
He seems to love belittling those who are flat earthers. I agree with it.
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I see no problem calling an idiot an idiot, especially a loud idiot.
 
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little graham said:
You'll never get consensus on global warming from science, as it is a spiritual thing, that needs addressing spiritually. Western Science has yet to be able to apply its knowledge spiritually. It needs to separate ego.
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ROFL.
Gravity only works if you believe in it too.
Hence the documentary program, "The flying nun".
 
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“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.” - Humphry Davy



 
Macca225 said:
One of my favourites (language)

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Not really one for the Quotes thread, but do yourself a favour and watch "Dawkins reads his hate mail".
 

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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
 
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so" - Douglas Adams
 
The remark which I read somewhere, that science is all right as long as it doesn't attack religion, was the clue I needed to understand the problem. As long as it doesn't attack religion it need not be paid attention to and nobody has to learn anything. So it can be cut off from society except for its applications, and thus be isolated. And then we have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. But if they want to defend their own point of view, they will have to learn what yours is a little bit. So I suggest, maybe correctly and perhaps wrongly, that we are too polite.

-Richard Feynman

Also: "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize."
 
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense." "The theory, "he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved."

1935
The New York Times,
Tesla
 
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