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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...

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Bill Nye
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 27
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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Incidentally, the creationists that I've encountered diligently deny that our Earth's climate is being altered by people. This point of view and teaching is in absolutely no one's best interest. Here's hoping we can work together and preserve the Earth, for us - us humans.
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The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.
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There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
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I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.
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If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.
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I 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.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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From 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.
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I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.
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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.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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. We are part of the process we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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