Bill Nye quotes

Bill Nye is an American science educator, engineer, and television presenter, best known for hosting the popular TV show "Bill Nye the Science Guy." His engaging and accessible approach has inspired generations to take an interest in science. He continues to advocate for science education and environmental awareness. Here are 97 of his quotes:

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

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I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

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Look at the facts. We need you to change things, not deny what's happening.

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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.

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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.

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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.

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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.

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When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.

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The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.

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When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.

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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.

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It's not cool ... or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.

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What we want to do is not just less, but do more for less. I want the United States to lead the world in this. The more we mess around with this denial, the more we lose."

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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.

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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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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. 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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Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.

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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.

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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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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.

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