If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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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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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 want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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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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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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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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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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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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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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