Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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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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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
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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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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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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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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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We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.
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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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'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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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
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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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Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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Good science makes a clean environment.
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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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If we continue to eschew science ... we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.