We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
BILL NYENuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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I 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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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