black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
BILL NYE

Evolution Facts Tests Way
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.
BILL NYE

Blue Race Space
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
BILL NYE

Climate Problem Serious
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

Challenged Creationism Discoveries Static
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
BILL NYE

Climate Cutting Real
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE

Country Funny Humor People
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

Forests might Tribes
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
BILL NYE

Girl Kids Successful Women
I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
BILL NYE

Development Discovery Research Years
Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
BILL NYE

Better Need People Situation System
The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
BILL NYE

Parent People War
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
BILL NYE

Broadway Dancer Media
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

Knowing People Space
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE

Drawbacks Hearing Spells
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
BILL NYE

Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
BILL NYE

Over School Starting Thinking

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Nye Quotes