Bill Nye Short Quotes

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Change the world - even if ever so slightly - is my goal.

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Science is the most important thing you can study in school.

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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

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To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.

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Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.

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

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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.

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If I were the king of the forest, and I'm not, we would have more astronomy.

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If we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.

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

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Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.

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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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How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?

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We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.

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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.

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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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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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I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.

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I can be educational, but if I'm not funny and entertaining, too, who's going to come and listen to me or watch me on TV.

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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.

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When you compare Mars to Earth, and Venus to Earth, you can see the problem [earthlings face]. We do not want to become Venus.

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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 we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.

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The single biggest impact a person can have on the Earth is driving a car, either driving a fuel-efficient car or just driving it less.

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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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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.

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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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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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