But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
BILL NYEI speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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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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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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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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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.
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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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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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