Bill Foster actually said...

"I was really encouraged to see people from every walk of life taking an interest in science just because of the eclipse."

"that has real implications, for example, politically where there is a narrative that real wages have not gone up in the last generation."

"a government commitment to high-quality education, period, which unfortunately has become a matter of some dispute."

"it's resulted in a hemorrhaging of faculty from that institution and a lot of uncertainty about whether there's a commitment to high-quality education."