“Seeing is believing” [is] an approach to life that works well in many endeavours, including mechanical engineering, fishing, and perhaps dating. It’s also good, apparently, for residents of Missouri. But it doesn’t make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your eyes, which are inextricably […]
There should never be heroes in science
Some scientists make their careers by criticising other’s research. But who watches the watchmen? …those self-critical, self-correcting principles of science simply don’t allow for hero-worship. Even the strongest critics of science need themselves to be criticised; those who raise the biggest questions about the way we do research need themselves to be questioned. Healthy science […]
Lord William Kelvin, 1883 British engineer and physicist.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. Lord William Kelvin, 1883 British engineer and physicist. Kelvin would also have estimated the […]
December CMOS Ottawa Lunch Meeting: Canada’s Changing Climate, Moving Ahead with Partnerships in Science
Speaker: Nancy Hamzawi, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology, Environment and Climate Change Canada Title: Canada’s Changing Climate, Moving Ahead with Partnerships in Science Speaker Bio: Nancy Hamzawi was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology Branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on October 1, 2018. Previously, she was the Director General of the G7 […]
Panel on Reducing Building Energy Footprints
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