Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
BILL NYEPeople get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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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.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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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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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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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.
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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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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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