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.
BILL NYEHow did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
More Bill Nye Quotes
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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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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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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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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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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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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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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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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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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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