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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.

Bill Nye

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 NYE

Climate Every Day Needs
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
BILL NYE

Believe Generations Thinking
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.
BILL NYE

Belief Earth Years
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE

Long Spring Winter
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 NYE

Believe Engineering People
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.
BILL NYE

Better Need People Situation System
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
BILL NYE

Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
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.
BILL NYE

Summer Water Bottle Winter
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
BILL NYE

Engineering School Skills
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
BILL NYE

Discovery Medicine Views
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE

Drawbacks Hearing Spells
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.
BILL NYE

Assessment Law Three
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
BILL NYE

Age Certain Memories Quality
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
BILL NYE

Boys Father Ties
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.
BILL NYE

Development Discovery Research Years
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
BILL NYE

Climate Cutting Real

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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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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