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 NYEEvolution 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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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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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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