But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>