Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
BILL NYEApparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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