Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
I like to regard myself as someone who’s capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.
The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.