69 quotes found
Science communicator · American · 1993–1999
American science communicator (born 1955)
“Good science makes a clean environment.”
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
“Science is the best idea humans have ever had.”
“I find both humor and grimness in most issues.”
“Change the world - even if ever so slightly - is my goal.”
“Science is the most important thing you can study in school.”
“Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't”
“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 dr...”
“Science is the key to our future, and if you dont believe in science, then youre holding everybody back. And its fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you dont beli...”
“We are all one race. The only difference is the color of our skin, and that comes from how close your ancestors lived to the Equator or at high altitudes like Tibetans. There have always been tribe...”
“There really is, for humankind theres really no such thing as race. Theres different tribes but not different races. Were all one species.”
“Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”
“The(re is no) End”
“...I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described...It's just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the un...”
“People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.”
“If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.”
“There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt le...”
“Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.”
“To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.”
“But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.”
“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 int...”
“Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.”
“There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”
“Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.”