Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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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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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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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