If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
BILL NYEHow did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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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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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 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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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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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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