The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYERecommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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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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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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