When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
Bill NyeRead
The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
Interpretation
This quote encourages critical thinking about the age of the Earth and our beliefs regarding it.
Bill Nye's quote challenges the commonly held belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old, advocating for scientific inquiry and supporting the understanding that the Earth is much older. He emphasizes the importance of questioning one's beliefs when faced with evidence, underscoring the relationship between science and personal faith.
In practice
During a lecture about evolution, this quote can be used to highlight the importance of scientific understanding.
When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
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.
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.
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.
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