We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
BILL NYEBicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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