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" Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Accountable
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" 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. "
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" What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc. "
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" The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. "
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" 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.' "
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" One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content. "
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" The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. "
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" Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act. "
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" When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? "
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" If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries. "
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" Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. "
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" Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief. "
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" Symmetries are the playing field on which the physical world works and which determine the rules of the game. The symmetries of nature determine for us things that remain constant, that can't be changed. Those are the guideposts in physics, the quantities like energy and momentum. "
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" For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. "
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" The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. "
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" There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics. "
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" It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity. "
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" To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas. "
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" Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. "
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" 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. "
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" When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects. "
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" I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one. "
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" The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable. "
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" For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps. "
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" Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers. "
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" These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism. "
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" Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. "
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