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.
BILL NYERecommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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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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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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