Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities ac….

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, ….

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it ….

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it.

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy..

The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a ficti….

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at f….

As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems a….

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than….

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible….

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders ….

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don'….

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries..

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm..

The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn grow….

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right..

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science..

Committees do harm merely by existing..

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent..

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish..