We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
BILL NYEWhen 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?
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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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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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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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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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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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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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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