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 NYEThe thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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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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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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