It 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.
BILL NYEMy father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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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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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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