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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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  Ecosystems, People, Needs

  "Bill Nye Explains Why he is a GMO Skeptic" by Keith Kloor, blogs.discovermagazine.com. November 6, 2014.

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• But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

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  Passion, Space, Giving

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

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  People, Humans, Researchers

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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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  Christian, Religious, Years

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Dancer, Broadway

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 5, 2014.

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• I 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 Nye

  School, Engineering, Skills

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

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  Couple, Century, Evidence

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• Reading 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 Nye

  Reading, Exercise, Law

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

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  Space, Fans, Fiction

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• You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

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  People, Exploration, Extraordinary

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

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  People, Arithmetic, Intimidated

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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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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  Believe, Evolution, Gravity

  Source: blogs.kcrw.com

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Inspiration, Cutting

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• 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.

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  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

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  Blue, Space, Support

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Real, Fall, Black And White

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Television 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 Nye

  Book, People, Television

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Animal, Pigs, Years

  "Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election". Interview with Richard Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• History 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.

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  Past, People, History

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• The 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.

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  War, People, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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  People, Shapes, Might

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• If 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 Nye

  Years, Ideas, Attention

  "Atheist Bill Nye, Who Believes 'Creationism Isn't Appropriate for Children'". "CBS This Morning" with Gayle King, www.newsbusters.org. August 28, 2012.

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• As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

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  May, Engineers, Knows

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy on science and technology". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2000.

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• People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

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  Keys, Hands, People

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• Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.

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  Hopeful, Coal, Burning

  "Gulf oil spill: Bill Nye discusses top kill". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. May 28, 2010.

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