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 NYEI hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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.
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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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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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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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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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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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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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