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 natur… - Bill Nye

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.

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

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.