I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
BILL NYEWe are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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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.
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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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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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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 respect.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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