black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
BILL NYE

Discovery Medicine Views
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
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
BILL NYE

Climate Cutting Real
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
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
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
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
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
BILL NYE

Dollars Inference Real
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
BILL NYE

Common Dog People Sense
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
BILL NYE

Mean Party Play Used
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
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
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
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
BILL NYE

Inquiry Our Resistance Society
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
I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
BILL NYE

Healthy Hope Lives
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
BILL NYE

Mutual Religious Strong Support
I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
BILL NYE

Better Develop Engineer Transportation
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
BILL NYE

Change Climate Environmental Issues Thinking
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
BILL NYE

Age Certain Memories Quality
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
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
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

Discovery Philosophy Thinking
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE

Alternatives Class Teaching
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
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE

Long Spring Winter

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Nye Quotes