Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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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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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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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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There really is no such thing as race.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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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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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.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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