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 NYEThe future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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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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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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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.
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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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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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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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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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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 more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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 natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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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.
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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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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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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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