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.
BILL NYEI meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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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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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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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 the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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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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When 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.
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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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