Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
BILL NYEMy father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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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.
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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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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.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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.
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