The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
BILL NYENuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
More Bill Nye Quotes
-
-
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.
BILL NYE -
The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
BILL NYE -
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYE -
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE -
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE -
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
BILL NYE -
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
BILL NYE -
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
BILL NYE -
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 NYE -
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
BILL NYE -
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
BILL NYE -
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
BILL NYE