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.
BILL NYEI feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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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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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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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 hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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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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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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