I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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