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

Nye grew up in a science-minded family in Washington, D.C. His mom was a math and science whiz. His dad manufactured sundials. His grandfather was an organic scientist. Fittingly, one of young Bill’s favorite hangouts was the original Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which looked like a small Quonset hut.

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.

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.