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.
BILL NYEWe need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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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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