Bill Nye Quotes

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

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

There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

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

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

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. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

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

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

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.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

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

I 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.

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.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

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.

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

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.

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

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

People and stars are made of the same stuff.