How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
BILL NYEIf you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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