Quotes from Bill Nye

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Science rules!

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

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.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.