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- The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or…
- I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
- Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching…
- Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and…
- Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we…
- Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be…
- Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared…
- We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered…
- I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you…
- Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from…
- The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most…
- There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because…
- He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the…
- Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter…
- If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.
- WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.
- If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not…
- Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that…
- If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
- Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that…
- The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions…
- (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow…
- People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's…
- In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
- I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps…
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