You 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 NYEFrom 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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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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The 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.
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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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 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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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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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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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 speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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