Explore Quotes by Bill Nye

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.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

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

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

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

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

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

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

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. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.

People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

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.

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.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.