Russell Baker

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.