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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate. -- Bill Nye
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. -- Rudy Rucker
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. -- Gregory Meeks
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient. -- Rick Smolan
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. -- Phillip E. Johnson
There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program. -- Megan Smith
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. -- Ben Goldacre
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science. -- Richard Dawkins
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950. -- Michio Kaku
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. -- Ronald Fisher
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. -- Claude Bernard
Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100. -- Pranab Mukherjee
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living. -- David Morrell
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong. -- Chris Crutcher
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. -- William James
President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his? -- Jay Leno
Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field. -- Alan Tower Waterman
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. -- Ben Goldacre

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