Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
BILL NYEThe US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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Tax 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.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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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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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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I 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.
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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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