Bill Nye Quotes

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

Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.

If we continue to eschew science ... we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.

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.

How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?

We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.

I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

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.

Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.

If we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.

I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.

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

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.

It's not cool ... or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.