We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
BILL NYEI tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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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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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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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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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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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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