Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.