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 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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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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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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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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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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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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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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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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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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