4 Quotes by Gavin Schmidt

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

It’s the whole or it’s nothing.

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, ‘How come they work?’