The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYEMy father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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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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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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