I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
BILL NYEI 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.’
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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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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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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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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