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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.
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The Earth has never warmed this fast. We need to see how much we can change the world in the next 20 years.
The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.
I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.
It is this fragile nature of the earth's atmosphere that I want everybody to appreciate. It's what I call your place in space.
I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
The passion and beauty and joy of science is that we humans have invented a process to understand the universe in a way that is true for everyone. We are finding universal truths.
I say to the grownups, '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.'
When you compare Mars to Earth, and Venus to Earth, you can see the problem [earthlings face]. We do not want to become Venus.
I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.
Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.
The more we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.
Carbon dioxide has never entered the atmosphere so fast. In 1976 the carbon dioxide level was at 0.03 percent. We've lived through a change to 0.04 percent.
Good science makes a clean environment.
Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.
Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.
The invention process is a great exercise for kids. It compels them to define an actual problem, formulate an original solution, develop a product, and share the results or products with their friends and peers.
Look at the facts. We need you to change things, not deny what's happening.
We have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing. There is no debate in the scientific community.
Science is the part of NASA that's actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions. Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.
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