The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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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.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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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.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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 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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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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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