Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
BILL NYEIf 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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