Words matter. These are the best Bill Nye Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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.
I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it’s different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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.
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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.
When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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.
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science – in all of biology.
Television isn’t inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television’s the same way. If you’re going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You’re not paying attention to what’s happening in the universe around you.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete’s foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I’d rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don’t feel superstitious about it.
