When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
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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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of NASA as a leader in innovation and space exploration, advocating for proper political support rather than budget cuts.
Bill Nye highlights the vital role of NASA not just as a space agency, but as a source of innovative advancements and inspirational achievements in science and technology. He argues that politicians should prioritize its mission and potential rather than reducing its funding or transforming it into a mere jobs program, as this would undermine the agency's critical contributions to society and exploration.
In practice
During a science conference, to encourage investment in space programs.
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.
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.
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.
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
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