Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.
Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.
There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.
Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.
At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.
People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.
I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered. . . the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith. . . All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.