But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYEThere are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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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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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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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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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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There really is no such thing as race.
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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 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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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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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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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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 information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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