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 NyeBurning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
Bill NyeThe oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.
Bill NyeWhen we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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