Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It’s generational, we’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say. Bill Nye More Quotes by Bill Nye More Quotes From Bill Nye Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here. Bill Nye bookyearsideas If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe. Bill Nye tribesforestsmight The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps. Bill Nye debateanswerssides I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. Bill Nye agendasreligiouschristian Burning 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 Nye animalpigsyears NASA 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 Nye cuttinginspirationjobs The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping. Bill Nye shapesmightpeople I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me. Bill Nye black-and-whiterealfall I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic. Bill Nye intimidatedarithmeticpeople A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway. Bill Nye halftwoyears There really is no such thing as race. Bill Nye vastness-of-spacepale-blue-dotrace Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict. Bill Nye conflictgoallaw People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]? Bill Nye mutual-supportstrongreligious Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice. Bill Nye mathkidsart We strongly feel that missions like Lightsail 2 will democratize space, enable more people, more organizations around the world to send spacecraft to exciting and remarkable destinations in the solar system that will lead us to answer that deep question: 'Where did we all come from?'. Bill Nye science By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees, what I'm saying is the planet's on f *** ing fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out -- are any of them free ? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots. Grow the f ** k up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now, and this is an actually crisis, got it ? Safety glasses off, motherf *** ers. Bill Nye top-news Today we have a great many lawmakers, not just here, but around the world, deliberately ignoring and actively surpassing science, their inclination is misguided, and in no one’s best interest. Bill Nye politics Kids now can spend time thinking. When I was a kid doing a science fair like this I had to spend a lot of time in the library, kids can get a lot of information about material science – they can do a lot more research than we used to be able to do. Bill Nye science It’s bulletproof material made of magnesium oxide. Bill Nye science We need to have innovation, we need to have new ideas and ways of doing things, especially with regard to renewable energy. Bill Nye science
