Bill Nye Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bill Nye
Bill Nye Famous Quotes & Sayings
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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.
You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.
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.
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote!
so long as we each focus only on our individual decisions and their short-term consequences, we will act like renters, not owners of this Earth.
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.
The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a produce of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
We all have DNA, and it's nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we're close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it's closer to 90 percent overall.
Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.
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.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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.
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.
If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.
We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
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.
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.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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.