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.
BILL NYENo matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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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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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 stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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