The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYEIf you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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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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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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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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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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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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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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