The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
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