I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
BILL NYEFrom 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.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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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 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.
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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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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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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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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems.
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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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