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" As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. "
Me
Found
Ordinary
" Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry. "
Satellites
Space
Industry
" A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. "
Gay
Abortion
Ignore
" A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes can produce. Stars form by gravity, collapsing into spherically ordered structures that can remain in this form only if they release tremendous heat energy into the environment. "
Stars
Energy
Environment
" By his own admission, Carson's remarkable hand-eye coordination allowed him to soar as a surgeon, and he used that success to build a lucrative reputation as a purveyor of advice for young and old. His book for young people is titled 'You Have a Brain.' "
Reputation
Brain
People
" By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it. "
Intelligent
Time
Design
" Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief. "
Disagree
Protest
Order
" Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President's address on the San Bernardino shooting, that 'this is the war of our time.' As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime. "
Said
Closing
React
" Donald Trump's candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the president to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the president has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture. "
Launch
War
Freedom
" Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. "
Think
Thinking
Education
" Either Trump only talks to those who play up to his delusion, or he simply doesn't listen to those who might burst his bubble. Either way, that is a cause for worry. "
Play
Only
Listen
" Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. "
Our
Questions
Understanding
" Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. "
Space
Short
Empty
" Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. "
Science
Said
People
" For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance about the world, convolved with ignorance about himself. "
Hatred
Ignorance
Me
" For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps. "
Lot
Man
Ben
" For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction. "
Direction
Think
Looks
" Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics - it's not talking about things that have affected computer science; it's mathematical logic. "
Science
Mathematics
Doing
" For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. "
Creator
Live
May
" For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it. "
You
Reality
Universe
" I am in favor of saying, 'Okay, let's get teams of educators and experts in certain disciplines to say, 'What are the basic things that we think are an essential part of an early education for people?'' Put them together and create, as well as possible, a set of goals and tools to learn those things. "
People
Education
Goals
" I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. "
Science
Be True
True
" I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one. "
Universe
Without
God
" I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going. "
Peaceful
Future
Help
" If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now. "
Big Thing
Next
Now
" If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries. "
Predictable
Discoveries
Were
" If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. "
Own
Our
Will
" I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done. "
Done
Research
Always
" Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing. "
Purpose
Reality
Universe
" Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws. "
Gun
Shooting
Laws
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