Explore Quotes by Bill Nye

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.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

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.

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.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

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.

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.

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.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.