Bill Nye Quotes

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

~ Bill Nye

...I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described...It's just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the universe, it seems as though Ham and his followers just can't handle the truth. They throw aside their common sense and cling to the hope that there's something that makes it okay to *not* think for themselves.The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it. The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it.

~ Bill Nye

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

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Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

~ Bill Nye

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

~ Bill Nye

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

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To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.

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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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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

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I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

~ Bill Nye

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

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I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

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Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

~ Bill Nye