When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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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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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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