If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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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’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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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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’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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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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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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