The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
BILL NYEI 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
-
-
We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
BILL NYE -
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
BILL NYE -
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYE -
Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
BILL NYE -
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
BILL NYE -
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
BILL NYE -
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
BILL NYE -
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
BILL NYE -
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYE