Galveston – September 1900
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
- H. L. Mencken
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire
“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
- Richard P. Feynman
“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.”
- Michael Crichton
“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”
- Michael Crichton
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”
- Richard P. Feynman
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
