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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.

Bill Nye

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
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Broadway Dancer Media
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
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
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
I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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Healthy Hope Lives
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 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
You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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Computer Everything Literate Memories
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
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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Mean Party Play Used
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Literate Problem Scientific Solve
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

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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