Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
BILL NYEI abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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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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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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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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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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