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.’
BILL NYEReligion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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