Bill Nye Quotes

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

I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.

To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.

People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.

Nye has won numerous daytime Emmy Awards and has been named outstanding performer in a children's series.

The Earth has never warmed this fast. We need to see how much we can change the world in the next 20 years.

It's his gift. He makes science understandable and fun, and he knows how to connect with people.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not gonna get the right answer. Your whole world is just gonna be — a mystery. Instead of an exciting place.

Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.

The more we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.

I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

It is this fragile nature of the earth's atmosphere that I want everybody to appreciate. It's what I call your place in space.

A graduate of Cornell University, Nye began his career as an engineer. In fact, Boeing still uses his hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor today.

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

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.