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Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.

Bill Nye

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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Bangs Bigs Reason
I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Communicate Dog Speak
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Girl Kids Successful Women
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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Country Discovered Example Fission Nuclear Papers
The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Facts Natural World
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Literate Problem Scientific Solve
We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Development Natural Research
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Long Spring Winter
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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Couple Religious Teaching
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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Over School Starting Thinking
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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Kids Needs Say World
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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Inquiry Our Resistance Society
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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Country Navy People Ship Stars

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.

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Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.

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