Bill Nye Quotes

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.

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.

I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.

When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.

When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.

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.

I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.

The passion and beauty and joy of science is that we humans have invented a process to understand the universe in a way that is true for everyone. We are finding universal truths.

Science is the most important thing you can study in school.

The invention process is a great exercise for kids. It compels them to define an actual problem, formulate an original solution, develop a product, and share the results or products with their friends and peers.

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

Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.

Good science makes a clean environment.