Quotes by Bill Nye

About Bill Nye:

William Sanford "Bill" Nye is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist, and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.
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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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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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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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I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change so...

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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 engineer...

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

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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...

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

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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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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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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hu...

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

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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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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 pi...

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I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

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

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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Nye
  • DescriptionAmerican science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
  • AliasesWilliam S. Nye; William Sanford Nye
  • BornNovember 27, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEngineer; Scientist; Teacher; Educator; Writer
  • AwardsDaytime Emmy Award; Humanist Of The Year