Bill Nye Quotes

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

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.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

There really is no such thing as race.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.