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Bill Nye, born on November 27, 1955, is an American educator renowned for his contributions to science education. He is best known for his work on the television show 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,' where he made complex scientific concepts accessible to the public and inspired a generation of young people to pursue science.

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“I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.”

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

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

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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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“Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.”

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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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“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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“We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.”

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“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”

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Book:Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Source: Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

“People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.”

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“People and stars are made of the same stuff.”

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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. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. 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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“Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”

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“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.”

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“America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.”

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Book:Comic History of the United States

Source: Comic History of the United States

“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”

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“I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.”

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“As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.”

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“I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.”

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“I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.”

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“In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.”

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“If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.”

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“The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.”

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“If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.”

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“People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.”

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“There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.”

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“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.”

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“If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.”

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

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“You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.”

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

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About the Author

Born: November 27, 1955
Known for: Educator
Quotes: 137

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