Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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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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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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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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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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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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