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. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
Bill NyeClimate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
Bill NyeYou start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.
Bill NyeI used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
Bill NyeI don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.
Bill NyeFrom an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.
Bill NyeAmerica has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Bill NyeMy father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
Bill NyeIn another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
Bill NyeNASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
Bill NyeHow did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
Bill NyeThere's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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.
Bill NyeWhen or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.
Bill NyeIf 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.
Bill NyeI say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'
Bill NyeThe Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
Bill NyeThe US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.
Bill NyeWe are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
Bill NyePeople get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?
Bill NyeWe should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.
Bill NyeReading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.
Bill NyeApparently 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.
Bill NyeI 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.
Bill NyeScience is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
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 NyeYou stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
Bill NyeThere are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
Bill NyeIf you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill NyeBicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
Bill NyeTelevision isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
Bill NyeI try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.
Bill NyeI feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.
Bill NyeHard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
Bill NyeHistory is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
Bill NyeI don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.
Bill NyeThe most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
Bill NyeBut as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
Bill NyeI abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
Bill NyeThe 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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