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 NYEThe debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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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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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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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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