Steven Chu
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081216/NEWS08/812160380/1006/NEWS
“His appointment should send a signal to all that my administration will value science,” Obama said during a Chicago news conference Monday. “We will make decisions based on facts, and we understand that the facts demand bold action.”
You’ve gotta love the force of this man’s words.
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I think I cried a little just now, reading those words. So simple yet so neglected the past 8 years, this little word: fact.
Powerful, isn’t it? I can’t wait until January 20th!
I think that’s a typo and he meant to say “my administration will value thinking.”
Some of you may find this interesting: Advocates for Action on Global Warming Chosen as Obama’s Top Science Advisers.
I liked this quote:
“The Bush administration has been the most remarkably anti-science administration that I’ve seen in my adult lifetime,” Nobel laureate David Baltimore, former president of the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview. “And I do think that there will be a sea change in the Obama administration with the respect shown for the findings of science as well as the process of science.”