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?
BILL NYEApparently 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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 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.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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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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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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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.
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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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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