Best Nye Quotes

#1. Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#2. What happens to other species also happens to us.

Bill Nye

#3. Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#4. Fantastic," I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. "I'm just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world."
Spencer Nye

Jason Letts

#5. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

#6. 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.

Bill Nye

#7. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

#8. I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

Bill Nye

#9. I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

Bill Nye

#10. It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

Cedric Nye

#11. What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#12. I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know

Naomi Shihab Nye

#13. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

Bill Nye

#14. I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

Bill Nye

#15. Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.

Bill Nye

#16. America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

Bill Nye

#17. Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Bill Nye

#18. Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Joseph Nye

#19. Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#20. 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.

Bill Nye

#21. Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Bill Nye

#22. How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Bill Nye

#23. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#24. 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.

Bill Nye

#25. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Bill Nye

#26. Hi,Hello,Wuzzup?,cool,now.g'bye!

Bill Nye The Science Guy

#27. 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.

Bill Nye

#28. 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.

Bill Nye

#29. If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

Bill Nye

#30. 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.

Bill Nye

#31. What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

Naomi Shihab Nye

#32. If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

Bill Nye

#33. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Bill Nye

#34. America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Joseph Nye

#35. 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.

Bill Nye

#36. 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.

Bill Nye

#37. Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.

Bill Nye

#38. The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.

Robert Nye

#39. I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#40. Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Alton Brown

#41. 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.

Bill Nye

#42. Most days weren't clear when you were in them.

Naomi Shihab Nye