Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
BILL NYEWinter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
More Bill Nye Quotes
-
-
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
BILL NYE -
Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
BILL NYE -
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
BILL NYE -
I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
BILL NYE -
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
BILL NYE -
It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
BILL NYE -
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
BILL NYE -
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
BILL NYE -
I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYE -
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
BILL NYE -
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
BILL NYE -
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.
BILL NYE -
This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
BILL NYE -
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
BILL NYE -
I 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.
BILL NYE