But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYEI 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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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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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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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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 information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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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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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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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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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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