Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
BILL NYEThe 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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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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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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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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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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