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.
BILL NYEBut as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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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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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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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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