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Greg Craven Quotes

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Greg Craven is an American high school science teacher and climate change author.

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In any disagreement between what we want to be true and what is true, physical reality wins every time.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

As humans, we reflexively reject arguments that contradict what we would like to be true.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

Even depressions end. Climate chaos may not.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remove that huge handicap that we all share—the tendency for our beliefs to drift toward what we want to be true.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

New breakthrough technologies can make it easier, but we've already got, right now, everything we need to accomplish the task of transforming our energy economy away from fossil fuels. Except the willingness.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

I’ve found that if I can't come up with even an inkling of how my mind might be changed, then I'm not really thinking at all; I'm just set on holding on to my current beliefs.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

I was left with a great idea gutted by critical examination. But that's good. That's how we make ideas better—by trying to poke holes in them and then finding ways to fix the holes.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

My students have described this process of testing ideas in science as: “Hit it with a sledgehammer and see if it breaks. Whatever survives is the best we've got." Science is a very adversarial activity! Hence the old adage among physicists: Physics is a contact sport.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Greg Craven (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.