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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More Bill Nye Quotes
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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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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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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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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