Bill Nye Quotes
The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.
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It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
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A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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I long to kiss the image of my death.
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The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.
