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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.

Bill Nye

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
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning
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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Earth Spheres Tree
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.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
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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Parent People War
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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Age Certain Memories Quality
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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Bangs Bigs Reason
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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Black Fall Real White
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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Engineering School Skills
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Believe Engineering People
Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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Evolution Facts Tests Way
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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Breathing Dangerous Situation Technology
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Meaning Life People Stars
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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Kids Say Want World
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder

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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