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.
BILL NYEThe future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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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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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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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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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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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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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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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