But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as 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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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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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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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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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.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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 you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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