Quotes by Kyle Hill - Page 1

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.
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Atoms
Notes
Symphony
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Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.
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Selective
Your Body
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A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.
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Appreciation
Beauty
Physics
Rainbow
Working
Product
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Whether we know it or not, each of our decisions is influenced by what we want to see or think.
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Influenced
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Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.
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Lone
Turns
New Idea
Proponent
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We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.
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Cognitive
Examining
Resources
Brains
Expend
Judgments
Mental
Problems
Snap
Thoroughly
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Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.
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Bones
Offspring
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By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
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Calling
Discussion
Driven
Evil
Poison
Bill
Scientific
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Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan.
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Ancient
Dinosaurs
Dragons
Evolution
Flight
Liked
Followed
Looked
Plan
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It's okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.
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Flow
Nerdy
Replicate
Be Yourself
Experiment
Reservoir
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The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the molecules that are, at this moment, you.
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Elements
Molecules
Shopping
Twenty Two
Almost All
Describe
Fill
List
Recipe
Suspect
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You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It's not that you have to be a juiced-up 'lunk' to do one; it's a matter of physics.
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Yoga
Bike
Physics
Swim
All Day
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It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.
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Fashionable
Claim
Exempt
Liberals
Supporting
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When we overestimate the benefits of exercise, underestimate how many calories we eat, and overcompensate for a job well done, exercise is really a false protection from fattening food.
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Benefits
Calories
Fattening
Overestimate
Protection
Underestimate
Well Done
False
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Most people would put me firmly in the nerd/geek category. It wouldn't be a change from where I've been put my whole life, but my place now has standing. Nerds are inexorably cool again.
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Category
Firmly
Inexorably
Nerds
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For peer review, replication, and objectivity to make any headway on the continuum, for science to find the right answers to anything, there have to be wrong - or at least unlikely - answers.
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Answers
Continuum
Objectivity
Unlikely
Headway
Peer
Review
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Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
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Envy
Holmes
No Friends
Planets
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
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Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.
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Fitness
Defined
Math
Myth
Pernicious
Arnold
Excel
Likewise
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Raised on Bill Nye videos, LEGOs, and CD-ROMs of dinosaurs, I was a lump of nerdy clay waiting to be molded. 'Mythbusters' came to me at a critical time, and it transformed me into who I am today.
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Clay
Critical
Dinosaurs
Nerdy
Raised
Today
Transformed
Waiting
Time Today I Am
Time Waiting I Am
Bill
Came
Lump
Molded
Videos
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Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being.
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Bringing
Fears
Insecurities
Portrait
Runs
Sherlock
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The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our planet's geology, biology, and species diversity.
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Biology
Geology
Odds
Species
Noah
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If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
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Failure
Imagination
Adaptation
Smart
Life Nature God
Claim
Model
Hand
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We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
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Bias
Confirmation
Discredit
Information
Spectacles
Accept
Does
Beliefs
Distorting
Eyes
Look
Over
Ignore
Prior
Tend
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You can do crunches all day long, and you abs will indeed get bigger and stronger, but you will never see them. The only way to see the muscles you work so hard for is to lose weight globally - across your entire body.
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Bigger
Muscles
Stronger
Weight
All Day
Work Long Your
Entire
Globally
Indeed
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When the first episode of 'Mythbusters' aired in 2003, I couldn't drive a car. I couldn't see a R-rated movie. I was 14 years old, and I couldn't do much of anything. But 'Mythbusters' taught me that I could do science.
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How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.
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Teen
Cosmos
Long Term
Teen Years
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Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality.
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Assumption
Choices
Rational
Reasoning
Researchers
All The Facts
Works
Conjunction
Economists
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What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.
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Environmental
Factors
Genetics
Roots
Score
Tree
Picture
Basically
Iq
Status
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Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That's what makes a topic nerdy: depth.
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Ocean
Deeper
Depth
Discovery
Endeavor
Interesting
Nerdy
Theory
Science Always New
Science New Always
Highly
Question
Topic
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Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.
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Landscape
Leap
Logical
Monsanto
Painter
Reasoning
Dangers
Foods
Gm
Potentially
Practices
Serial
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I was in China when Pokemon fever hit, and I got it bad. But as I got older, I didn't stay with it. My binder full of rares has since disappeared. I have refused to play the other games like the newest 'Pokemon X/Y' out of some misplaced hipster angst.
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Angst
Fever
Misplaced
Disappeared
Newest
Refused
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As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.
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Death
Destructive
Energy
Expenditures
Forget
Mad
Massive
Popular Culture
Rays
Scientist
Successful
Free
Capabilities
Crafted
Finely
Focusing
Instead
Noting
Popular
Required
Tends
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It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.
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Climate Change
Data
Explanation
Mountain
Remains
Case
Door
Leaves
Planet
Scientists
Studies
Supporting
Warming
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We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.
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Concrete
Outside World
Steel
Suitable
Nature World Nothing
Glass
Underneath
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Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically very different, making it that much harder to fight. Variation is the toolbox of evolution, and this variation gives cancer strength.
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Cancer
Different Sides
Evolution
Harder
Sides
Variation
Deadly
Genetically
Tumor
Ultimately
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Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner's eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.
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Decent
Eye
Given
Gold
Joy
Realization
Weight
Winner
Chunk
He Or She
Holding
Solid
Metal
Oscar
Twinkle
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It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how the tubas are tuned and how the strings are strung. Creationism lets out a loud 'shush' at such excitement. Just enjoy the show and stop asking questions.
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Asking Questions
Awe
Excitement
Loud
Strings
Symphony
Closely
Lets
Tuned
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Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.
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Delay
Forever
Free Will
Manage
Navigate
Position
Realizing
Present
React
Spiral
Treatise
Unsettling
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Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.
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Diminish
Science Fiction
Appeal
Appreciating
Enhances
Fundamental
Picking
Possibilities
Proposes
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People are misers of mental effort. If we don't have the interest or the capacity to look into the arguments, if the message isn't personally relevant, if we judge that we already know all we need to know about a topic, there is no reason to spend precious mental resources.
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Capacity
Effort
No Reason
Relevant
Resources
Look People Know
Judge
Mental
Personally
Precious
Topic
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If you wanted to travel backwards in time, you're out of luck. We have theories on how it might be possible to do so, but they all involve wormholes and black holes and other stuff that would probably kill you. If you want to travel forward in time, you just have to go really fast.
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Travel
Backwards
Black
Holes
Luck
Might
Stuff
Black Holes
Possible
Fast
Forward
Involve
Theories
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Bullets are fast - even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.
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Bigger
Fling
Gunpowder
Moon
Needed
Rifles
Velocity
Bullet
Carries
Fast
Escape
Grains
Handgun
Metal
Pull
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Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
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Jesus
Allegory
Battle
Cities
Destroying
Example
Fluid
Historical
Walking
Warning
Water
Same
Read
Doubting
Impossibilities
Mechanics
Noah
Scientific
Story
Thomas
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The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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Communication
Candle
Dark
Delivering
Disturbing
Messages
Uncertainty
How Much
Putting
Theories
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No matter how many times you've seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of a bullet, physics forbids such sacrifice. Because of a bullet's radical speed, you can't jump in front of it, but you could get in its way. It's not as dramatic, but it does save lives.
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Dramatic
Path
Physics
Radical
Sacrifice
Speed
Tv Shows
Tv
Seen
Bullet
Front
How Many Times
Jump
Leaping
Protagonist
Save
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Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted 'in the heart of a dying star,' but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say.
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Space
Atoms
Died
Dying
Gas
Heavy
Magic
Physicist
Reality
Stars
Ball
Star
Crafted
Exploded
Hammer
In Fact
Lawrence
Thor
Yes
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Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.
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Authority
Climate Change
Creationist
Denial
Fake
Medicine
Notion
Alternative
Teachers
Bomb
Detector
Experiment
Frauds
Generation
Healers
Preconceived
Preconceived Notion
Psychic
Scientific
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I have a save file in 'Final Fantasy XII' that is 125 hours long. I have gotten into legitimate arguments over the rules governing the tapping of mana in 'Magic: The Gathering.' I don't like hugs or parties, high school sucked for me, and Nathan Fillion deemed something I wrote his 'Favorite 'Firefly' fanboy rant to date.'
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Fantasy
Gathering
High School
Hours
Magic
Rant
School
Tapping
Rules
Me Long School
Date
Favorite
Deemed
High
File
Gotten
Hugs
Legitimate
Parties
Save
Sucked
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