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What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].
Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.
Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.
The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.
It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?
Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.