But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
BILL NYEThe 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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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.’
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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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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 Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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