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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.

Bill Nye

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.
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Black Fall Real White
We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Knowing People Space
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Life Meaning Strive
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 tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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Century Couple Evidence
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Intimidated People
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
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
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Common Dog People Sense
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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Answers Debate Sides
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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Crazy Different Years

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. 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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