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.
BILL NYEI hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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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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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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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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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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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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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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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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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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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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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