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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.

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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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Inquiry Our Resistance Society
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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Book Evolution Ideas Years
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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Forests might Tribes
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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Black Fall Real White
The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Facts Natural World
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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Cycling Future Out Work
The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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People Quality Want
From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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Over School Starting Thinking
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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Entertaining Looks Teacher
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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Feeling Gambling Good Thinking
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Common Dog People Sense
Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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Answer Consciousness Discover Think
That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Body Information Stores
Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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Brain Different Memories
SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Everyday Everyday Life
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Girl Kids Successful Women
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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Breathing Dangerous Situation Technology
I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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Better Develop Engineer Transportation
This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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Challenged Creationism Discoveries Static
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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Bangs Bigs Reason
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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Best Come Humans Things Up
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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might People Shapes
Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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Climate Every Day Needs
I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Communicate Dog Speak
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Needs People
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Believe Evolution Gravity

The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.

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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.

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