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.
BILL NYEOne of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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’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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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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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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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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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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