A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

If we keep on with business as usual, the Earth will be warmed more every year; drought and floods will be endemic; many more cities, provinces, and whole nati…

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteri…

I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big nu…

La pensee ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni a un dogme, ni a un parti, ni a une passion, ni a un interet, ni a une idee preconcue, ni a quoi que ce soit, si ce n…

...men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all…

First of all, paleontologists don't believe one another on their own discoveries-how can I believe in people who don't even believe in it themselves? And bibli…