It Is A Shame When Nonsense Can

Discerning The Merits Of Competing Claims Is Where The Empirical Basis Of Science Should Play A Role. I Cannot Stress Often Enough That What Science Is All About Is Not Proving Things To Be True But Proving Them To Be False. What Fails The Test Of Empirical Reality, As Determined By Observation And Experiment, Gets Thrown Out Like Yesterday's Newspaper.

If Our Species Is To Survive, Our Future Will Probably Require Outposts Beyond Our Own Planet.

Lack Of Comfort Means We Are On The Threshold Of New Insights.

There Is A Maxim About The Universe Which I Always Tell My Students: That Which Is Not Explicitly Forbidden Is Guaranteed To Occur.

The Purpose Of Education Is Not To Validate Ignorance But To Overcome It.