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Norway World's largest rechargeable electric car market penetration, with 31,4% of plug-in cars on the road by December 2023
"The more I learn the more I know there is to know", or "The only true knowledge is knowledge of one's own ignorance", adapted from Socrates"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance", as quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game".
— Karl Popper, 1935, in "The Logic of Scientific Discovery"
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth", Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", Carl Sagan.
"Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake"
"The cardinal sin, when we are looking for truth of fact or wisdom of policy, is refusal to discuss, or action which blocks the discussion", Sidney Hook, in "The Ethics of Controversy"
"...(modern) science has become rather like the Catholic Church of Galileo's time, and about as receptive to criticism'", David Orrell, in "The Future of Everything"
"(Climate scientists) have too often mistaken real doubts for scurrilous attacks, and relied on mutual reinforcement rather than open debate, on authority rather than argument" in The Economist (2010-07-10).
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it", Alan Key, in Steve Jobs (biography)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
"Experts, when they try to forecast the future, are usually wrong", Freeman Dyson, in The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories", Karl Popper
"You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues"
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your excellent work. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
Granted for the Week beginning on March 4, 2018 for Excellent work.
The Brazil Star
You are awarded this barnstar for completely revamping after more than 70 edits the Ethanol fuel in Brazil article. So much information was added that this article that once had just 16 source citations now boasts over 85 source citations. Good Job! ⇨ EconomistBR ⇦Talk 02:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations, you have contributed a large body of work to WP without sacrificing quality, and now have four excellent GA articles. Thank you for your efforts. You really are the kind of editor WP needs... Johnfos (talk) 22:12, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
It was an inspiration to see the way you worked through your holidays to bring yet more articles up to GA. Well done! Johnfos (talk) 21:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The Environmental Barnstar
For extensive, ongoing work on environmentally-important articles. Thank you! Ebikeguy (talk) 01:09, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Mariordo, You are an outstanding editor, contributing quality text (in various languages) and superb images. You have brought many articles up to FA and GA and created other recognised content. You are always polite and helpful with other editors. Well done... you really are a Superior Scribe... Johnfos (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thanks for the cleanup on Kia Soul EV. I was not aware when I created the article that it must contain the name of the car manufacturer in the title. I was able to read through the guidelines and now have a better understanding. You cleanup on the article is what led me there. Thanks again. CNMall41 (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar
Thank you for your work regarding the pictures for the LV shooting. BobherryTalkEdits 13:32, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your superb in-depth work on articles related to environmental friendly vehicles! Vauxford (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
A contributor of quality text and superb images since 2007 with over 58000 edits. Functions in various languages and has brought many articles to FA/GA status. Always polite and helpful with all editors. An active member of the Green Vehicle Task Force and WP:Transport.
"... there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know",Socrates in Gorgias
"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics",Richard Dawkins
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions..."Karl Popper
"I do not attempt to convert my opponents - I aim at converting their audience", David Goodman (DGG), Wiki Administrator
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws", attributed to Albert Einstein.
"Imagine there's no countries, ... No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace..."John Lennon, Image, 1971.
My Favorite Fathers of Modern Science and Giordano Bruno, the First Martyr of Science
"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail", Albert Einstein
My favorite natural sites, historical places and cities
Centro storico di Firenze (59–27 BCE), Italy. Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance. The Historic Centre was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 1982.
Oia and Fira, Santorini island (12th - 13th century), Greece. Santorini is one of four islands that remains after an enormous volcanic eruption (between 1600 BCE and 1525 BCE) destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island. Santorini has been voted several times as one of the world's most beautiful islands.
The Pantheon, Rome (125 AD). The Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced solid concretedome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.4 meters.
Brunelleschi's Dome, Florence Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore). The dome was built between 1420 and 1436. Florence Cathedral's dome is the world's largest brick and mortar (masonry) dome ever constructed. The octagonal dome has 42.05 m in diameter and the tambour is 45 m wide. The height of the dome is 114.5 m, it stands 52 m above the floor. The dome was built without the use of interior scaffolding.
"Brazil is the country of the future... and it always will be."
— Popular and time-honoured Brazilian joke, inspired by Stefan Zweig, an Austrian who wrote the book "Brazil, Land of the Future" praising his new homeland
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