12 Quotes by Tom Nichols

Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is not a parlor game played with factoids.

But science is a process, not a conclusion. Science subjects itself to constant testing by a set of careful rules under which theories can only be displaced by better theories.

An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.

Online debates become personal, emotional, and irresolvable almost as soon as they begin.

It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true. All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.

Plugging words into a browser window isn't research: it's asking questions of programmable machines that themselves cannot actually understand human beings.

We were hoping we would both be able to win one. And that's how it turned out.

Don't let your ATM card out of your sight.

They're a big problem. We have had an increase in kills in the last year.