Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
I’ve always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
What happens to other species also happens to us.
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
There really is no such thing as race...
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people.
SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.