Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
BILL NYETeaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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There 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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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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