NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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More Bill Nye Quotes
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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.
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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 want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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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.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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