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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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
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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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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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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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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
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Disasters teach us humility.
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
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Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
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I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.
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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.
