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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.

Bill Nye

One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
BILL NYE

Broadway Dancer Media
I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
BILL NYE

Better Develop Engineer Transportation
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE

Alternatives Class Teaching
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
BILL NYE

Abstinence Insisting Recommending
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

Brain Different Memories
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
BILL NYE

might People Shapes
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYE

Laughing Opportunity World
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
BILL NYE

Apples Next Taste
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
BILL NYE

Life Meaning Strive
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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Mutual Religious Strong Support
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
BILL NYE

Blue Race Space
I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
BILL NYE

Communicate Dog Speak
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
BILL NYE

Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
BILL NYE

Burning Coal Hopeful
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 NYE

Discovery Philosophy Thinking

Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.

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