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Everybody Remembers Numbers And Computers Remember Numbers. People Remember Procedures And Computers Certainly Remember Procedures. But The Other Thing That's Still Important Is That Your Perception As A Human Is Affected Subtly By All This Stuff That You Can't Quite Articulate. You Run Your Life According To All This Stuff That's Happened To You. All Of Your Memories Affect Everything You Do Whereas With A Computer, There's Adaptive Software And Things, But It's More Literal.

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Everybody Remembers Numbers And Computers Remember Numbers. People Remember Procedures And Computers Certainly Remember Procedures. But The Other Thing That's Still Important Is That Your Perception As A Human Is Affected Subtly By All This Stuff That You Can't Quite Articulate. You Run Your Life According To All This Stuff That's Happened To You. All Of Your Memories Affect Everything You Do Whereas With A Computer, There's Adaptive Software And Things, But It's More Literal.

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Religion Is A Completely Different Thing From The Claim That The Earth Is Six Thousand Years Old. That's Just Crazy.

I Abandoned My Religious Teachings After I Read The Bible Twice - Cover To Cover. It Took Me A Couple Of Years.

Researchers Have Proven That Scientifically, That All Humans Are One People

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Climate Change Is A Real Deal. So, Hey Deniers - Cut It Out, And Let's Get To Work.

As My Old Professor Carl Sagan Said So Often, 'when You’re In Love, You Want To Tell The World.’ And I Base My Beliefs On The Information And The Process That We Call Science. It Fills Me With Joy To Make Discoveries Every Day Of Things I’ve Never Seen Before. It Fills Me With Joy To Know That We Can Pursue These Answers. It Is An Astonishing Thing That We Are — You And I Are One Of The Ways The Universe Knows Itself.

Science Provides A Much More Satisfactory Way To Seek Answers Than Does Any Religion.

If You Meet Somebody Who Says He Or She Has Never Dreamed Of Flying, I Don't Believe You. I Mean, They're Lying.

The World's Going To Change Climatically. We Just Want To Control The Change. We Want To Have A High Quality Of Life For Billions Of People As We Pass Through This Era.

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.

The Oncoming Trouble I Speak Of Is Climate Change. It's Going To Affect All Of You In The Same Way The Second World War Consumed People Of My Parent's Generation.

The Debate [in Undeniable] Was Nominally About Creationism As A "viable" Explanation For What We Observe Around Us. For My Side, The Debate Went Very Well; I'm Not Sure What I Would Change, Although I Can Imagine Shortening My Answers During The Rebuttals, Perhaps.

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Our Goal In Science Is To Discover Universal Laws Of Nature. That Pursuit Fills Me With Wonder.

The Meaning Of Life Is Pretty Clear: Living Things Strive To Pass Their Genes Into The Future. The Claim That We Would Not Have Morals Or Ethics Without Religion Is Extraordinary. Animals In Nature Seem To Behave In Moral Ways Without Organized Religion.

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Tax Dollars Intended For Science Education Must Not Be Used To Teach Creationism As Any Sort Of Real Explanation Of Nature, Because Any Observation Or Process Of Inference About Our Origin And The Nature Of The Universe Disproves Creationism In Every Respect.

The Us Navy Has Several People On Every Ship That Can Navigate By The Stars. They Don't Fool With That.

Bicycling Is A Big Part Of The Future. It Has To Be. There's Something Wrong With A Society That Drives A Car To Work Out In A Gym.

How Did We Let An Ideological Resistance To Inquiry Become Such A Prominent Part Of Our Society?

Humor Is Everywhere In That There's Irony In Just About Anything A Human Does.

That's What Makes A Human A Human, If We Store Information Outside Our Bodies.

You Stop Planetary Exploration, Those People Who Do That Extraordinary Work Are Going To Have To Go Do Something Else.

If You Want Grown-ups To Recycle, Just Tell Their Kids The Importance Of Recycling, And They'll Be All Over It.

But Investment In Space Stimulates Society, It Stimulates It Economically, It Stimulates It Intellectually, And It Gives Us All Passion.

Without An End To The Burning Of Fossil Fuels, Coal Especially, Most Of Us Will Live Shorter Lives. I'm Hopeful, But Very, Very Concerned.

In Another Couple Centuries I'm Sure That Worldview Won't Even Exist. There's No Evidence For It.

I Say To The Grownups, If You Want To Deny Evolution And Live In Your World, That's Completely Inconsistent With The World We Observe, That's Fine. But Don't Make Your Kids Do It. Because We Need Them. We Need Scientifically Literate Voters And Taxpayers For The Future. We Need Engineers That Can Build Stuff And Solve Problems.

There Are Just Two People Entitled To Refer To Themselves As "we"; One Is The Editor And The Other Is The Fellow With A Tapeworm.

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If You Just Take A Single Human And Put Him Or Her In The Forest He Or She Might Not Do Very Well Without Some Sort Of Education Which He Got Or She Got From Some Tribe.

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Middle Of Nowhere

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Vastness Of Space

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Everyone, Red State, Blue State, Everyone Supports Space Exploration.

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Hard To Find Anything Lovelier Than A Tree. They Grow At Right Angles To A Tangent Of The Nominal Sphere Of The Earth.

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Incidentally, The Creationists That I've Encountered Diligently Deny That Our Earth's Climate Is Being Altered By People. This Point Of View And Teaching Is In Absolutely No One's Best Interest. Here's Hoping We Can Work Together And Preserve The Earth, For Us - Us Humans.

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Meaning Of Life

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I'll Admit That The Discovery Of Evolution Is Humbling, But It Is Also Empowering. It Transforms Our Relationship To The Life Around Us. Instead Of Being Outsiders Watching The Natural World Go By, We Are Insiders. We Are Part Of The Process; We Are The Exquisite Result Of Billions Of Years Of Natural Research And Development.

Research And Development

Along With The Evidence Of Common Sense, Researchers Have Proven Scientifically That Humans Are All One People. We're A Lot Like Dogs In That Regard. If A Great Dane Interacts (can We Say Interact?) With A Chihuahua, You Get A Dog.

Winter Lingered So Long In The Lap Of Spring That It Occasioned A Great Deal Of Talk.

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By The Way, Most Of The Light That Comes From The Sun Is Green.

The Natural World Is A Package Deal; You Don't Get To Select Which Facts You Like And Which You Don't.

I Like To Regard Myself As Someone Who's Capable Of Critical Thought, That Is To Say, Who Can Evaluate Claims.

If You Memorize The Periodic Table It Will Speed You Up If You're A Chemist, But By And Large, The Reason You Have A Periodic Table Is So That You Can Store That Information Outside Of Your Body. That Way It Frees Up Some Part Of Your Brain To Do Something Else...

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.

People That Don't Want To Get Down To The Business At Hand. Instead Of Just Doing Less, We Have To Find Ways Of Doing More With Less. That's The Key To The Future.

The Theory Of Evolution Was Not Formally Published Until Shortly Before Faraday's Death. Evolution Was Yet To Be Discovered During Faraday's Life. Also, I Don't Think That Michael Faraday Would Claim That The Earth Is Extraordinarily Young.

Theory Of Evolution

I Say To The Grown-ups, 'if You Want To Deny Evolution And Live In Your World That's Completely Inconsistent With Everything We've Observed In The Universe That's Fine. But Don't Make Your Kids Do It.'

I Always Liked Show Biz And Got To Make A Few Training Films At Boeing.

When We See The Shadow On Our Images, Are We Seeing The Time 11 Minutes Ago On Mars? Or Are We Seeing The Time On Mars As Observed From Earth Now? It's Like Time Travel Problems In Science Fiction. When Is Now; When Was Then?

One Of The Drawbacks Of English Is You Can't Spell Things By Hearing Them.

There Are Two Questions That Get To Us All: Are We Alone In The Universe? And, Where Did We Come From? For Me, Science Provides A Much More Satisfactory Way To Seek Answers Than Does Any Religion I've Come Across. With That Said, The Universe Is Mysterious And Wonderful. It Fills Me With Reverence For Nature And Our Place Among The Stars; Our Place In Space.

To Leave The World Better Than You Found It, Sometimes You Have To Pick Up Other People's Trash.

What Happens To Other Species Also Happens To Us.

The More You Find Out About The World, The More Opportunities There Are To Laugh At It.

If We Raise A Generation Of Students Who Dont Believe In The Process Of Science, Who Think Everything That Weve Come To Know About Nature And The Universe Can Be Dismissed By A Few Sentences Translated Into English From Some Ancient Text, Youre Not Going To Continue To Innovate.

Unlike Science, Creationism Cannot Predict Anything, And It Cannot Provide Satisfactory Answers About The Past.

There Are Two Ways To Be Rich: To Have More Or Need Less. It's Estimated That We Squander About 30 Percent Of Our Energy Leaving The Lights On, The Refrigerator Door Open, And So On. Then There Is The Enormous Amount Of Food That We Expend Huge Amounts Of Energy To Raise And Then Throw Away.

When We Explore The Cosmos, We Come To Believe And Prove That We Can Solve Problems That Have Never Been Solved. It Brings Out The Best In Us. Space Exploration Imbues Everyone With An Optimistic View Of The Future.

Talk About Science With Everyone You Meet. Especially Talk About Climate Change. It Needs To Become A Part Of Our Everyday Conversation (the Way It Is Everywhere Else In The World).

Our Goal In Science Is To Discover Universal Laws Of Nature. If One's Faith Requires One To Abandon Or Ignore Natural Laws, Well, That Person Is Going To Have Trouble Reconciling Religion And Science. Otherwise, There Is No Any Conflict.

If The Earth Gets Hit By An Asteroid, It's Game Over. It's Control-alt-delete For Civilization.

I've Always Loved Airplanes And Flight. The Space Program Was Really Important To Me As A Kid. I Still Have A Photo Of Armstrong And Aldrin On The Moon In My Living Room.

I've Got No Problem With Anybody's Religion. But If You Go Claiming The Earth Is Only 10,000 Years Old, That's Just Wrong.

History Is But The Record Of The Public And Official Acts Of Human Beings. It Is Our Object, Therefore, To Humanize Our History And Deal With People Past And Present; People Who Ate And Possibly Drank; People Who Were Born, Flourished And Died; Not Grave Tragedians, Posing Perpetually For Their Photographs.

If Nasa Is To Reach Beyond The Moon And Someday Reach Mars, It Must Be Relieved Of The Burden Of Launching People And Cargo To Low Earth Orbit. To Do That, We Must Invest More In Commercial Spaceflight.

I Speak With Dogs Frequently. They Don't Really Talk, But I Feel They're Communicating.

When Or If Answers Are Found, You Can Be Assured Those Answers Will Lead To More Questions. Is The Troubling Or Wonderful? It Depends On Your View Of Your Place In Nature, Your Place Among The Stars; I Suppose.

I Don't Perceive An Anti-religious Agenda, Especially With Regard To Christians And Christianity.

Speaking Of Human Computers, There Is A Guy Named Art Benjamin, He's A Human Calculator. He Says It's A Skill He Learned As A Kid. Now He's A Math Professor At Harvey Mudd. He Can Find The Square Root Of A Six Digit Number In A Few Seconds. Practice.

There Is No Debate In The Scientific Community...we Need [congress] To Change Things, Not To Deny What's Happening.

The Strange Thing About Grinding That Might Surprise Many People Is That You Can Grind Things And Shape Them Using Materials That Are Generally Somewhat Softer Than The Thing You're Grinding And Shaping.

Teaching Creationism In Science Class As An Alternative To Evolution Is Inappropriate.

I Meet So Many People Who Are Intimidated By Arithmetic.

Not Wasting Any Water Bottles Is Good. Not Leaving The Lights On Is Good. Turning The Thermostat Down In The Winter, Up In The Summer, Is Good. But The Best Thing Any Of Us In The Developed World, Especially In The United States, Can Be Doing Is Talking About It.

Anybody Who Grew Up With The Space Program Is A Fan Of Science Fiction.

If You Look Back On All The Teachers That You Liked, I Am Sure You Will Find They Were Very Entertaining.

People Get A Lot Out Of Being Religious. They Have Strong Senses Of Community And Mutual Support. So, What's Not To Love [there]?

If You Decide To Become A Dancer On Broadway, Never Say Who Your Favorite Dance Partner Is, Because Members Of The Media Will Presume You Never Want To Dance With Anybody Else.

The Most Serious Problem Facing Humankind Is Climate Change.

America Has Had Many Other Discoverers Besides Columbus, But He Seems To Have Made More Satisfactory Arrangements With The Historians Than Any Of The Others.

My Father Was A Very Good Boy Scout. He Was Very Skilled With Knots, And He Showed Me How To Tie A Bow Tie.

Everyone You Will Ever Meet Knows Something You Don't.

Millennial Voters Are Very Concerned About Climate Change And Will Vote For Candidates Who Are Planning To Address It. But The Systems That Are In Place - People Talk About Gerrymandering And The Money That's In Politics, This Is A Real Thing, A Real Effect - And It's Hard For Climate Change-denying Legislators To Get Voted Out. But I Predict It Will Happen.

When We Sit Down To Draw Or Paint The Sun's Rays, We Generally Use Yellow Because In The Morning And The Evening With The Blue Light Scattered Away So Strongly You're Left With A Little Bit Of Red And It Comes Out Yellowish.

I Hope Climate Science Becomes The Big Thing. And Then What I Want Is Electrical Engineers To Solve The World's Energy Problems, Energy Distribution Problems. I Want Mechanical Engineers To Make Better Transportation Systems. I Want Chemical Engineers To Develop Better Solar Panels, And So On.

I Just Want To Remind Us All There Are Billions Of People In The World Who Are Deeply Religious, Who Get Enriched By The Wonderful Sense Of Community By Their Religion. But These Same People Do Not Embrace The Extraordinary View That The Earth Is Somehow Only 6,000 Years Old.

The Philosophy Of Science Is Inherent In The Process. This Is To Say, You Think Critically, You Draw A Conclusion Based On Evidence, But We All Pursue Discovery Based On Our Observations. That's Where Science Starts.

I Stand By My Assertions That Although You Can Know What Happens To Any Individual Species That You Modify, You Cannot Be Certain What Will Happen To The Ecosystem. Also, We Have A Strange Situation Where We Have Malnourished Fat People. It's Not That We Need More Food. It's That We Need To Manage Our Food System Better.

No Matter What You May Believe Spiritually Or Otherwise, The Earth Is Clearly Not 6,000 Or 10,000 Years Old.

For Me, The Meaning Of Life Is Pretty Clear: Living Things Strive To Pass Their Genes Into The Future.

Meaning Of Life

Science Is The Best Thing Humans Beings Have Ever Come Up With. And If It Isn't, Science Will Fix It.

I Always Say When You See That Old Black-and-white Footage Of The Rocket On The Launch Pad And It Falls Over And Explodes, That's Because People Had Slide Rules. Not Having The Decimal Point Is A Real Drawback. You Want The Decimal Point, Take It From Me.

Black And White

I Am So Old, I Entered Engineering School With A Slide Rule. And I Left Engineering School With A Calculator. I Can Still Use A Slide Rule But It's Not A Skill You Especially Need Anymore.

Recommending Or Insisting On Abstinence Has Been Completely Ineffective.

Some Of The Most Wonderful Aspects And Consequences Of Evolution Have Been Discovered Only Recently. This Is In Stark Contrast To Creationism, Which Offers A Static View Of The World, One That Cannot Be Challenged Or Tested With Reason. And Because It Cannot Make Predictions, It Cannot Lead To New Discoveries, New Medicines, Or New Ways To Feed All Of Us.

We Are Special In The Sense That We Can Know Our Place In The Cosmos. We Can Know Our Place In Space. We Are At Least One Of The Cosmos's Ways Of Knowing Itself. That Fills Me With Reverence And Joy. Another Insight I Really Want People To Consider Is This: Everyone Has Gotten This Far. Everyone You Meet Has Made It This Far. Nobody Is Superior To Anyone Else From An Evolutionary Standpoint.

Science Is The Best Idea Humans Have Ever Had. The More People Who Embrace That Idea, The Better.

The Information You Get From Social Media Is Not A Substitute For Academic Discipline At All.

I Don't Perceive An Anti-religious Agenda, Especially With Regard To Christians And Christianity. The Issue Being Debated Was Creationism, The Idea That The Earth Is 6,000 Years Old. As I Understand It, This Involves The Bible's Old Testament Exclusively.

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