I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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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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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.
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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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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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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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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.
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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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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 speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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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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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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