The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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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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).
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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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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.
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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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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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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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