There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
BILL NYEI want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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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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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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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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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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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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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 more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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