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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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
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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People Quality Want
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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Country Navy People Ship Stars
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
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
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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Cutting Inspiration Jobs
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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Fiction Mars Minute Planet Shadow Travel
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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Mutual Religious Strong Support
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
That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Body Information Stores
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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Climate Problem Serious
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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Attention Ideas Years
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 more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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Laughing Opportunity World
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
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Country Funny Humor People
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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Climate People Real
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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Blue Race Space
We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Knowing People Space
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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Engineering School Skills
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Answers Creationism Past
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Meaning Life People Stars
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning

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