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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

Bill Nye

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
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views
Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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Better Need People Situation System
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Civilization Earth Games
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
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
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
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
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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Best Come Humans Things Up
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Believe Engineering People
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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Boys Father Ties
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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Kids Say Want World
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Common Dog People Sense
It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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Answer Astonishing Joy Thing Universe
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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Book Evolution Ideas Years
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

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