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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

Bill Nye

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.
BILL NYE

Knowing People Space
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
BILL NYE

Cutting Inspiration Jobs
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
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
BILL NYE

Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
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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Country Navy People Ship Stars
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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Book Evolution Ideas Years
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYE

Life Meaning Strive
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
BILL NYE

Mutual Religious Strong Support
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.
BILL NYE

might People Shapes
That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
BILL NYE

Body Information Stores
From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
BILL NYE

Over School Starting Thinking
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Answers Creationism Past
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
BILL NYE

Common Dog People Sense
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
BILL NYE

Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
BILL NYE

Needs Taxpayers Voters

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

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