The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYEThe information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYEThe US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
BILL NYEBut investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYEWe are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
BILL NYEWe need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
BILL NYEI 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.
BILL NYEThere really is no such thing as race.
BILL NYENot 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.
BILL NYEThe Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
BILL NYEThink 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.
BILL NYEHard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
BILL NYEOur 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.
BILL NYEMy father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
BILL NYEThe natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
BILL NYEApparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
BILL NYEPeople 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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