Top 100 Bill Nye Quotes
#1. Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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#2. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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#3. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
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#4. As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
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#5. If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
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#6. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
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#7. How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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#8. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.
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#9. The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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#10. Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
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#11. What happens to other species also happens to us.
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#12. When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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#13. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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#14. I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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#15. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
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#16. Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.
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#17. America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
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#18. If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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#19. If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.
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#20. Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.
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#21. Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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#22. This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.
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#23. The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can't be tested thats what we call pseudo-science. The difference between pseudo-science and science is whether or not you can test it.
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#25. If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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#26. That's what makes the creationist viewpoint not just staggeringly wrong, but sadly impoverished. In twisting around the Second Law of Thermodynamics, they take a powerful tool for understanding the world and try to make it into a barrier to understanding instead.
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#27. Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
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#28. Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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#29. You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.
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#30. I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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#31. When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
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#32. I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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#33. Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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#34. Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.
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#35. You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.
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#36. If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate,
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#37. The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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#38. What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
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#39. If you're a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, "Well, that's the way he did it," I'll tell you right back, that is just not reasonable, nor is it satisfactory. If we were playing on a team right now, I'd say, "Get your head in the game.
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#40. We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
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#41. People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.
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#42. Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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#43. Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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#44. I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
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#45. Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
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#46. I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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#47. The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote!
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#48. The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we're here. And that's astonishing. And that we can understand that, that's the most astonishing.
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#49. I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
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#50. There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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#51. I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.
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#52. You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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#53. Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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#54. Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
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#55. I say to the grown-ups, '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.'
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#56. Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
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#57. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
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#58. There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.
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#59. I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
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#60. But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
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#61. It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.
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#62. Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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#63. Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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#64. A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
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#65. The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
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#66. I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.
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#67. When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
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#68. I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.
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#69. Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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#72. People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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#73. We are all aware that evolution happens, because we all have parents.
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#74. Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.
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#75. After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
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#76. The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.
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#77. The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
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#78. There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.
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#79. The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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#80. The word purebred is something we can define by counting generations back in dog-sex land. But it is not an indication of species or anything special, really.
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#81. If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
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#82. In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
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#83. The naysayers are not only casting doubt on science and nonbelievers; they are also ignoring the billions of non-conflicted believers around the world, dismissing their views as unworthy.
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#84. Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.
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#85. People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?
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#86. Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.
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#87. SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.
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#88. It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.
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#89. From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.
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#90. I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.
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#91. The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.
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#92. Our understanding of evolution came to us by exactly the same method of scientific discovery that led to printing presses, polio vaccines, and smartphones.
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#93. That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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#94. Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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#95. Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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#96. No other organism on Earth does that. Yes, yes, I understand that dolphins are very smart, but I don't think they build libraries or even contemplate such a project.
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#97. We all have DNA, and it's nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we're close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it's closer to 90 percent overall.
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#98. Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a produce of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun.
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#99. Science is the best idea humans have ever had.
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#100. More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.
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