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.
BILL NYEIf 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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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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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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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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