Bill Nye - People Quotes

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I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

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People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children's museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There's nothing more fun, to me.

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There are major issues that people - as taxpayers and voters - will have to make informed decisions on in the near future. They will need to understand the science and the ethical considerations to form their opinions. Some of these are issues that will affect humanity for decades to come.

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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.

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We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.

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I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.

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The problem is we have this thin atmosphere and a lot of people trying to breathe it. It's this thinness of the atmosphere that has allowed humankind to accidentally change the climate of the planet.

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When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.

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