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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.

Bill Nye

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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Answer Consciousness Discover Think
Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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Education Everyone Need One
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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Answers Bang Way
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Civilization Earth Games
I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Development Discovery Research Years
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Boys Father Ties
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Giving Investment Passion Society Space
When 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.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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Belief Earth Years
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
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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Better Develop Engineer Transportation
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
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Believe Evolution Gravity
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
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Needs People

You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.

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