Home › Authors › Bill Nye
Bill Nye Quotes
born 1955 United States
William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.
United States Agnostics Comedians Critics Educators Also known as: William S. Nye, William Sandford Nye, William Sanford Nye
Random Bill Nye quote
44 quotes
We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.
When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.
When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
Change the world - even if ever so slightly - is my goal.
When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.
To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.
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.
We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
The single biggest impact a person can have on the Earth is driving a car, either driving a fuel-efficient car or just driving it less.
Science is the most important thing you can study in school.
I find both humor and grimness in most issues.
If we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.
Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
"The problem is we have this thin atmosphere and a lot of people trying to breathe it. It's this thinness of the atmosphere that has allowed humankind to accidentally change the climate of the planet.
Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.
I can be educational, but if I'm not funny and entertaining, too, who's going to come and listen to me or watch me on TV.
If I were the king of the forest, and I’m not, we would have more astronomy.
People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.
Topics Bill Nye is quoted on