I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEClimate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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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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When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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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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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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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 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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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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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