Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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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.
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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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It's not cool ... or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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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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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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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Good science makes a clean environment.
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The single biggest impact a person can have on the Earth is driving a car, either driving a fuel-efficient car or just driving it less.
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When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.
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There are major issues that people - as taxpayers and voters - will have to make informed decisions on in the near future. They will need to understand the science and the ethical considerations to form their opinions. Some of these are issues that will affect humanity for decades to come.
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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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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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People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
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Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.