For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYEEvolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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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 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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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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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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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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When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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