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.
BILL NYEMillennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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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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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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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 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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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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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.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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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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