I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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More Bill Nye Quotes
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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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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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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.
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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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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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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