"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…"

"The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the phys…"

"I was left with a great idea gutted by critical examination. But that's good. That's how we make ideas better—by tryi…"

"Scientists are trained to not give absolute answers. It is interesting that in recent years, some have started to do …"

"My students have described this process of testing ideas in science as: “Hit it with a sledgehammer and see if it bre…"

"As much as we think science is about being right, the actual practice of the stuff is largely focused on being wrong.…"

"Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remove that huge handicap that we all share—the tendency for o…"

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

"Even depressions end. Climate chaos may not."

"Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief se…"