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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

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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Answer Astonishing Joy Thing Universe
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Broadway Dancer Media
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Long Spring Winter
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Giving Investment Passion Society Space
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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Couple Religious Teaching
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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Parent People War
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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Discipline Information Media
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
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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Cutting Inspiration Jobs
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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Kids Needs Say World
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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Feeling Gambling Good Thinking
I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Communicate Dog Speak
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.
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Engineering School Skills
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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Assessment Law Three
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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Age Certain Memories Quality
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Intimidated People
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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Bangs Bigs Reason
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning
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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Book Evolution Ideas Years
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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Better Develop Engineer Transportation
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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Change Climate Environmental Issues Thinking
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Believe Evolution Gravity
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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Conflict Goal Law
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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Climate Every Day Needs
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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Country Navy People Ship Stars
The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Facts Natural World

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