Ivar Giaever famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'
-- Ivar Giaever

#Mean #Average #Years
I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Global Warming #Skeptic
Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Climate #Pseudoscience #Answers
I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Numbers #Choices #Support
To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Failure #Ideas #Moments
If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Ideas #Work Out #Important
Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
-- Ivar Giaever

#Science #Technology

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

Ivar Giaever famous quotes

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