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.
BILL NYEWhen we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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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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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.
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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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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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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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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