Quotes by Bill Nye

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. 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.

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

Everyone that youll ever met wil know someone that you wont

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

...I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described...Its just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the universe, it seems as though Ham and his followers just cant handle the truth. They throw aside their common sense and cling to the hope that theres something that makes it okay to *not* think for themselves.The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it. The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it.

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.

Wagners music is better than it sounds.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the worlds 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.

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

Humor is everywhere in that theres irony in just about anything a human does.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the worlds 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.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, its game over. Its control-alt-delete for civilization.

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick its like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, its going to be heartbreaking.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Science is the key to our future, and if you dont believe in science, then youre holding everybody back.

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