We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
BILL NYEI 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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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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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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