Quotes by David Douglass

• It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
• If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
• Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
• As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.
• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
• One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
• Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.