I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
BILL NYEOne of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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.
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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 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 more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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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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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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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 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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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