Bill Nye Quotes
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After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
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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 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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I went to Monsanto, and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there, and I have revised my outlook, and I'm very excited about telling the world. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.
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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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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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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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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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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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A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
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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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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 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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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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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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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.