There’s a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Category Archive: 1955
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science – in all of biology.
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn’t, I’d ignore it.
In the poetic tradition, the heart’s affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people’s hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
As a kid at the World’s Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion – I was really disappointed.
After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
I’ve never been in a ‘Twitter fight,’ though I’ve witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don’t see much value in it.