But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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I 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.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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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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