Bill Nye Quotes
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A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
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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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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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Good science makes a clean environment.
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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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Science rules!
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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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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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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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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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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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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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.
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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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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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As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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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.