For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYEFor me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYEYou 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.
BILL NYEThe 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.
BILL NYEThe 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.
BILL NYEAlong with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
BILL NYEI 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 NYERecommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
BILL NYEHumor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYEI abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEWe are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
BILL NYEEveryone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
BILL NYESome of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
BILL NYEWhen 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.
BILL NYEThere are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
BILL NYEIt fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
BILL NYEThere 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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