Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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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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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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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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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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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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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 always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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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.
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