Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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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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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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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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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It 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.
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The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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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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Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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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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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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