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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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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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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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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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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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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.
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As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.