Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYEIf the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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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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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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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.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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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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