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If we continue to eschew science ... we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.
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I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.
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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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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.
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What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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It's not cool ... or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.
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When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.
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Science rules!
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Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
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There are major issues that people - as taxpayers and voters - will have to make informed decisions on in the near future. They will need to understand the science and the ethical considerations to form their opinions. Some of these are issues that will affect humanity for decades to come.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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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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Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.
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We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
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People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
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The single biggest impact a person can have on the Earth is driving a car, either driving a fuel-efficient car or just driving it less.
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Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.