There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
BILL NYESpeaking 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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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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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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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.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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