For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYEBut investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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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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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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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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 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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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