Bill Nye

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.”

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

“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 always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.”

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

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

“History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.”

“I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.”

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

“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.”

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

“I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.”

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