Education Quote by Robert M. Hazen

“the education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, and scientists are just as likely to be ignorant of scientific matters as anyone else. You should keep this in mind the next time a Nobel laureate speaks ex cathedra on…” quote by Robert M. Hazen — Download Open image

““the education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, and scientists are just as likely to be ignorant of scientific matters as anyone else. You should keep this in mind the next time a Nobel laureate speaks ex cathedra on issues outside his or her own field of specialization. Finally,””

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“we proposed eighteen great ideas of science that we felt framed virtually all discoveries of the natural world and all advances in technology. We could not have foreseen many of the remarkable developments of the past two decades—nanotechnology archaea, LEDs, cloning, dark energy, ancient microbial fossils and deep microbial life, evidence for oceans of water on Mars and lakes of…

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“Play that cosmic tape backward, and everything converges down to a point about 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the Big Bang. The light from some of these most distant objects has been traveling through space for more than 13 billion years. The data on this point are unassailable. Any claim that Earth’s age is ten thousand years or less defies…

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“We live in a world that operates according to a few general laws of nature. Everything you do from the moment you get up to the moment you go to bed happens because of the working of one of these laws. This exceedingly beautiful and elegant view of the world is the crowning achievement of centuries of work by scientists.…

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“The same kind of situation complicates many public debates, like that over global warming. Many scientists predict that altered atmospheric conditions will raise the…

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“Most funding for American scientific research comes from the federal government (your tax dollars at work).”

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“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that working scientists…

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“To get a sense of the scale of Earth history, imagine walking back in time, a hundred years per step—every pace equal to more…

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“For us, scientific literacy constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues. It is a mix of facts, vocabulary, concepts, history, and philosophy.…

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“Astronomers using powerful telescopes have found that about two of every three stars we see in the night sky are actually binaries—systems in which…

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“To function as a citizen, you need to know a little bit about a lot of different sciences—a little biology, a little geology, a…

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“Oceans today represent only about 0.02 percent of Earth’s total mass, while the atmosphere is no more than one part per million of its…

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