NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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 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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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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.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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