Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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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.
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Evolution 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 natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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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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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.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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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.
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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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