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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.

Bill Nye

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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Attention Ideas Years
The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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People Quality Want
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Needs People
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Believe Evolution Gravity
In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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Century Couple Evidence
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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Kids Needs Say World
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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Black Fall Real White
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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Fiction Mars Minute Planet Shadow Travel
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
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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Apples Next Taste
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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Inquiry Our Resistance Society
We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Development Natural Research
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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Blue Race Space

I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.

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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.

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