I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEThe 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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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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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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Apparently 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.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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