Bill Nye
American science communicator, television presenter
Lived from: 1955 -
Category: Media
Born: 27 november 1955
Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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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.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
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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.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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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.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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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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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
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What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
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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.
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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?
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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