Bill Nye Quotes
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I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
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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.
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I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
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When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
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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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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
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I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'
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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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You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.
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As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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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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Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Good science makes a clean environment.
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Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.
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You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.
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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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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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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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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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What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
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Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.