Eugenie Scott (Eugenie Carol Scott) Quotes
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'
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Disasters teach us humility.
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When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!
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Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
