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..

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….

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'….

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, ….

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

Committees do harm merely by existing..

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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….

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility..

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending..

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant..

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….

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

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?.

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

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