black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Climate Problem Serious
Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
BILL NYE

Country Discovered Example Fission Nuclear Papers
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.
BILL NYE

Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
BILL NYE

Arithmetic Intimidated People
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.
BILL NYE

Editors People Two
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.
BILL NYE

Cycling Future Out Work
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
BILL NYE

Breathing Dangerous Situation Technology
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE

Long Spring Winter
There really is no such thing as race.
BILL NYE

Blue Dot Pale Race Space Vastness
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
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
BILL NYE

Feeling Gambling Good Thinking
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
BILL NYE

Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
BILL NYE

Country Navy People Ship Stars
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

Kids Needs Say World
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
BILL NYE

Giving Investment Passion Society Space
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
BILL NYE

Kids Recycling Want
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
BILL NYE

Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
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 NYE

Kids Say Want World
The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
BILL NYE

People Quality Want
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
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

Answer Consciousness Discover Think
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
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
BILL NYE

Burning Coal Hopeful
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
BILL NYE

Best Come Humans Things Up
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
BILL NYE

Believe Optimistic Space
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
BILL NYE

Conflict Goal Law
Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
BILL NYE

Climate People Real

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Nye Quotes