How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.