Top 100 Quotes About Bill Nye
#1. Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
Alton Brown
#2. I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices.
Rick Riordan
#4. We would get to study you, frankly, said a tall, lean man who, I kid you not, looked just like Bill Nye the Science Guy.
James Patterson
#5. Fun biology fact: the neurochemical emotion known as "shame" originates in the gag reflex. Since I lack the latter, it explains why I have such a pathological lack of the former. Go ahead, ask Bill Nye, he'll tell you. It's science.
Hinata Yamimoto
#6. What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
Ken Ham
#7. 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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#8. There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.
Elise Andrew
#9. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
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#10. 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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#11. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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#18. How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.
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#22. 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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#23. What happens to other species also happens to us.
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#24. 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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#25. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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#26. I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.
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#27. I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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#28. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
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#29. 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.
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#30. Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.
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#31. 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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#32. If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
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#37. Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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#38. 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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#39. By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.
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#40. But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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#41. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
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#46. Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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#47. The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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#48. 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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#49. Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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#50. I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
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#51. 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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#52. If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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#53. Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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#54. When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
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#55. 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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#56. The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.
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#57. Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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#58. Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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#66. When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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#67. Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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#68. As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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#72. 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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#73. People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.
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#74. If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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#75. 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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#76. No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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#77. 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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#78. The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote!
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. The moon is out all day. I don't want to shock you.
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#83. 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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#84. Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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#85. Evolution, and the selection of reproduction-worthy genes that drives it, is the opposite of random. It is a sieve that living things have to pass through successfully, or we never see them again.
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#86. You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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#87. One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.
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#88. I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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#89. Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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#90. There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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#91. Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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#95. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.
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#100. It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.
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