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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.

— Ivar Giaever Nobel lecture (1973)

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If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much.

How can you possibly measure the average temperature for the whole earth and come up with a fraction of a degree?

It is acceptable to debate whether the mass of the proton changes over time, but is the evidence for global warming really incontrovertible? It is a new religion.

The facts are that in the last 100 years we have measured the temperatures it has gone up .8 degrees and everything in the world has gotten better.

When the ice age comes, the temperature falls 8 degrees. So maybe we should pollute more, to prevent that?

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