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.
BILL NYESome of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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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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 most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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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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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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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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