I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEThere really is no such thing as race.
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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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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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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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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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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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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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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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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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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