If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
BILL NYEI 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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 just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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 debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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The 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.
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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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do 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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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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