If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...
Bill NyeIntuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
Bill NyeI like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Bill NyeAs my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When youโre in love, you want to tell the world.โ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things Iโve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are โ you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
Bill Nye