Top 100 Quotes About 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. 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
#3. 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. He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.
It was not the sad music of waiting. Nor
was it a melody of his heritage. It was a call to the earth. To Allah. To
the country within him.
Susan Abulhawa
#5. Stairs. Gray halls. Nye sniffed the odors, separating one from another: lavatory disinfectant, alcohol, dead cigars. Beyond
Truman Capote
#6. It wasn't easy to learn about Gustave LeBon. For being the father of such an enduring theory, almost nothing has been written about him. Only one man has ever tried to piece his life story together - Bob Nye, a professor of European intellectual history at Oregon State University.
Jon Ronson
#8. 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
#9. When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation.
Jon Ronson
#10. 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
#11. She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered.
"Which you have already done," Nye nodded ... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through.
Derek Landy
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Bill Nye
#14. Clarabelle, did you draw a smiley face on the robot? - Nye
Derek Landy
#15. 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
#16. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
Bill Nye
#17. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
Edgar Wilson Nye
#18. 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
#19. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
Bill Nye
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
Bill Nye
#24. 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
#25. What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#26. If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill Nye
#27. How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
Bill Nye
#28. America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.
Joseph Nye
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.
Bill Nye
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. What happens to other species also happens to us.
Bill Nye
#38. Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye
#42. I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.
Bill Nye
#43. I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
Bill Nye
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
Bill Nye
#48. 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
#49. Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.
Bill Nye
#50. 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
#51. But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#52. Only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#53. Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#54. If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Bill Nye
#55. But we love you," my parents said. "We love you very much." I know, but they loved me as a girl. The boy within me was stuck with me. Not till much later did I find out that the boy within was really a girl.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#56. 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.
Bill Nye
#57. Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.
Bill Nye
#58. Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
Bill Nye
#59. In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#60. I never did understand
why the tree was still happy
at the end. The little boy
used her until she was
nothing but a stump.
She couldn't even run away.
But the ending was always the same:
And the tree was happy.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#61. There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
Bill Nye
#62. Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.
Joseph Nye
#63. 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.
Bill Nye
#64. This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.
Bill Nye
#65. Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#67. By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.
Bill Nye
#68. The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic - it is all three at the same time.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#69. But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Bill Nye
#70. I can never see fashion models,
lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
and blooming hair, without thinking of
the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#72. I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it in a bush somewhere.
Cedric Nye
#73. The nurse snorted, and said. "All men are pigs."
"Not all men." Jango said. "Some of the men are zombies.
Cedric Nye
#74. What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#75. 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.
Bill Nye
#77. There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#78. A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#80. When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner.
Naomi Shibab Nye
#81. 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.
Bill Nye
#82. 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.
Bill Nye
#83. I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
Cedric Nye
#84. Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
Bill Nye
#85. Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.
Andrea Nye
#86. Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
Bill Nye
#87. But I know we need to keep warm here on earth
And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#88. 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.
Bill Nye
#89. What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#90. 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.
Bill Nye
#91. You will no longer pick this sage that flavors your whole life.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#92. Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Bill Nye
#93. 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.
Bill Nye
#94. The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
Naomi Shihab Nye
#95. Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#96. I Still Have Everything You Gave Me
It is dusty on the edges.
It is slightly rotten.
I guard it without thinking.
I focus on it once a year
when I shake it out in the wind.
I do not ache.
I would not trade.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#97. Amal, you look stunned," said Mrs. Melchor. "Have you been struck by lightning between classes?"
"Yes," she said. "The lightning of ignorance."
Mrs. Melchor raised her eyebrows.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#98. 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.
Bill Nye
#99. 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.
Bill Nye
#100. I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
Naomi Shihab Nye
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