If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
BILL NYEIt 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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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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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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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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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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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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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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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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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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