Bill Nye Quotes

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

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.

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.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

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

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

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

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

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

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.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

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.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species.

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

The(re is no) End

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.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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.

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.

Science rules!

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.

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.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

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.