Quotes from Bill Nye

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.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.

Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

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?

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

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