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All Quotes by author - Bill Nye

" As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. "

" Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better. "

" Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. "

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

" 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. "

" The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. "

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

" 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. "

" There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. "

" Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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