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Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom
I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.
There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.
There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.