There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
BILL NYEWhen we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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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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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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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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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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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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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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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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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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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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