“Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!” PeopleYearsLongTwoStatesJobsUniverseIndividualUnitedUnited StatesPossibilityTaughtEuropeAccountsSpeciesEvolveThrownAcademicGravitySelectionDarwinismMutation Author:Ben Stein
“I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.” KnowsStatesRealityCareUniverseFoundNamesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesMountainPatientChecksExplorationEnginesCosmicEquationsSessionObservingReservedSpace ExplorationBoxersCalculatingDazed Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.” HumansIdeasCountryStatesBodyUniverseUnitedPracticeUnited StatesCenturyIncludingIllnessSpreadHuman BodyAustralianFluidHealerMagnetic18th Century Author:Karen Abbott
“I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.” ThinkingKnowsEndsStatesEnoughHappensEyeUniverseLeftUnitedUnited StatesSunComedyImagineStreetsBuildingOne DayMy FriendsSurpriseClubsCornersTricksBlockTexasShockedBack And ForthStarbucksHoustonComedy Clubs Author:Lewis Black
“Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.” WorldNeedsCountryStatesBigsUniverseAbilityUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesDangerBrotherTyrannyDominantCyberEavesdropping Author:Oliver Stone