Bill Nye Quotes (1955-)

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About Bill Nye

William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, 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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β€œGood science makes a clean environment.”
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β€œI find both humor and grimness in most issues.”
β€œChange the world - even if ever so slightly - is my goal.”
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β€œScience is the most important thing you can study in school.”
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β€œWe need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”
β€œGlobal climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.”
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β€œTo exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.”
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β€œEverything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.”
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β€œLook at the facts. We need you to change things, not deny what's happening.”
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β€œIf I were the king of the forest, and I’m not, we would have more astronomy.”
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β€œIf we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.”
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β€œHalf the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.”
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β€œWhen people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.”
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β€œWe want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.”
β€œHow could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?”
β€œThe Earth has never warmed this fast. We need to see how much we can change the world in the next 20 years.”
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β€œThe Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.”
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β€œWhen you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.”
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β€œI might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.”
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β€œI will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.”
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β€œNature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.”
β€œI can be educational, but if I'm not funny and entertaining, too, who's going to come and listen to me or watch me on TV.”
β€œWhen you compare Mars to Earth, and Venus to Earth, you can see the problem [earthlings face]. We do not want to become Venus.”
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β€œIt is this fragile nature of the earth's atmosphere that I want everybody to appreciate. It's what I call your place in space.”
β€œI'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.”

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Bill Nye on Genetic engineering 2 quotes

β€œI went to Monsasnto, and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there, and I have revised my outlook, and I'm very excited about telling the world. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.”
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Bill Nye on Cycling

β€œBicycling 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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Bill Nye on Reverence

β€œI 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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Bill Nye on Jupiter

β€œScience is the part of NASA that's actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions. Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.”
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Bill Nye on Mercury (planet)

β€œScience is the part of NASA that's actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions. Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.”
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Bill Nye on Saturn

β€œScience is the part of NASA that's actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions. Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.”
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Bill Nye on Food

β€œI stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better. So when corporations seek government funding for genetic modification of food sources, I stroke my chin.”
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What Bill Nye Said About Others

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Bill Nye on Ken Ham 2 quotes

β€œI 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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Quotes About Bill Nye

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Connie A. Higgins on Bill Nye 2 quotes

β€œNye, a Cornell University graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering, studied under the late astronomer Carl Sagan.”
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Bill Buell on Bill Nye 3 quotes

β€œNye, who grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated from Cornell University in 1977 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was lured to the West Coast by Boeing and made an immediate and significant contribution, designing a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for their 747s.”
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Tom Paulson on Bill Nye

β€œNye is a former Boeing engineer whose name (besides meaning 'new' in Danish) has become synonymous with wacky popular science ever since he became a cast member on KING/5's now defunct late-night comedy show, 'Almost Live.'”

Associated Press on Bill Nye

β€œBill Nye is many things: comedian, scientist, author, inventor, TV personality.”

Cindy Workowsky on Bill Nye

β€œHe has a cult following among science teachers.”

Bruce Lewenstein on Bill Nye

β€œIt's his gift. He makes science understandable and fun, and he knows how to connect with people.”

Jeff Ertz on Bill Nye

β€œNye has been instrumental in making science fun for preteen audiencesβ€š but when he is speaking at a collegiate venue he focuses more on topics he’s serious about.”

Pat Whitney on Bill Nye 2 quotes

β€œNye, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University, combined his love of science with his flair for comedy when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest in Seattle.”
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Paula Collucci on Bill Nye 4 quotes

β€œA graduate of Cornell University, Nye began his career as an engineer. In fact, Boeing still uses his hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor today.”
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Mark Bennett on Bill Nye 3 quotes

β€œBill Nye left a lasting impression on youngsters (and their parents) who watched his Emmy Award-winning television show β€œ Bill Nye the Science Guy” from 1993 to ’97. They saw him explain chemical reactions using steel wool, electricity, oxygen and a balloon, and saw him demonstrate gravity by throwing a watermelon, milk carton, tofu, a lamp, a computer and a TV off a building top.”
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Mike Anton on Bill Nye

β€œBill Nye [is] executive director of the Planetary Society, the Pasadena, Calif.-based nonprofit that advocates for space exploration.”

Sherri Cruz on Bill Nye

β€œNye, a mechanical engineer who once worked for Boeing Co., is best known for his PBS TV science show that ran from 1993 to 1998. He made science entertaining. He still does as a science educator.”

Misattributed Quotes

Quotes mistakenly credited to Bill Nye

β€œGender is determined by your chromosomes. Brewis, Harry (4 September, 2017), Bill Nye VS Pseudoscience (Part Two!), at: 16 April, 2023Evon, Dan (11 May, 2017), Did Bill Nye Say Gender is Determined 'by Your Chromosomes?', at: 16 April, 2023, publisher: Snopes”

About Bill Nye

William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, 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.