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I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.
Ivar Giaever / Physicist
Climate Change
Global Warming
Skeptic
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I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.
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Global Warming
Global
Warming
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Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
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Science
Technology
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
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Incontrovertible
Scientific
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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
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Science
Doing Good
Truth Is
Understanding
Objective
Primary
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Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.
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Answers
Climate
Pseudoscience
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There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
Ivar Giaever / Physicist
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Pursue
Effectively
Good Idea
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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Invention
Something New
Unknown
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If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
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Solar
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You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
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Curious
Nobel
Patient
Self Confident
Skeptical
Stubborn
Competitive
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If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
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Complicated
Explanation
Scientist
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There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
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Finite
Finite Number
Physics
Theories
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When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
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Good Living
Good Myself People
Discovered
Physicists
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While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.
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Balls
Behavior
Objects
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Tennis
Predict
Classical
Correctly
Electron
Mechanics
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I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.
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Boundless
Finite
Inventions
Resulting
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To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.
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Failure
Ideas
Moments
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If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
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Agree
Heaven
Physicist
Sake
Experiment
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Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.
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Religion
Better Ways
Global Warming
Support
Temperature
Money Better Important
Actual
Correct
Effect
Number
Frequently
Global
Hear
Spend
New Religion
Scientists
Warming
Ways
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I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.
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Choices
Numbers
Support
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My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.
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Advantage
Complicated
Convinced
Discovery
Expertise
Ignorant
Attempted
Beliefs
Experiment
Great Advantage
Require
Scientific
Seldom
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If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.
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Ideas
Trying
Work Out
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In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'
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