Bill Nye Quotes

Bill Nye is many things: comedian, scientist, author, inventor, TV personality.

Nye has been instrumental in making science fun for preteen audiences‚ but when he is speaking at a collegiate venue he focuses more on topics he’s serious about.

You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.

I can be educational, but if I'm not funny and entertaining, too, who's going to come and listen to me or watch me on TV.

Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.

Nye, a Cornell University graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering, studied under the late astronomer Carl Sagan.

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better. So when corporations seek government funding for genetic modification of food sources, I stroke my chin.

Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.

Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron? ... Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on? ... In these cases, for me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen. ... That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.

If I were the king of the forest, and I’m not, we would have more astronomy.

Nye developed his character 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' while living in Seattle and working on the comedy show 'Almost Live.'

We have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing. There is no debate in the scientific community.

The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.

We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.

By the mid-1990s he had his own television show, 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,' which was shot entirely in Seattle. Nye and his show won several Emmys.