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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.

Bill Nye

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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might People Shapes
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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Kids Say Want World
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
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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Summer Water Bottle Winter
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Civilization Earth Games
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Needs People
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Boys Father Ties
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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Mutual Religious Strong Support
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Girl Kids Successful Women
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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Discovery Philosophy Thinking
The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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Commercial Credit Electrical Future Gold Ideas
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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Believe Generations Thinking
In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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Century Couple Evidence
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
BILL NYE

Engineering School Skills
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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Computer Everything Literate Memories
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
BILL NYE

Earth Spheres Tree

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.

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