Quotes from Bill Nye


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


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.


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


It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.


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've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.


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?


After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.


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.


You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.


When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.


Science rules!


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.


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


If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.