Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
BILL NYETax 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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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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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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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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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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There really is no such thing as race.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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