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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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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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Crazy Different Years
We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Development Natural Research
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
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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Summer Water Bottle Winter
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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Age Certain Memories Quality
The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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Parent People War
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
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
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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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
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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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
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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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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Discovery Philosophy Thinking
I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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Assessment Law Three
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
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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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 most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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Climate Problem Serious
I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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Answers Bang Way
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Giving Investment Passion Society Space
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
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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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Believe Engineering People
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
Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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