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.
BILL NYEI stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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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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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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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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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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