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“The passion and beauty and joy of science is that we humans have invented a process to understand the universe in a way that is true for everyone. We are finding universal truths.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 35, Associated Press, TV host decries U.S. failure to value science, math education, The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 2000]

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]

“I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 'Science Guy' Visits Volcano, The Chronicle, Centralia, Washington, May 18, 2009, Paula Collucci]

“The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

“I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better. So when corporations seek government funding for genetic modification of food sources, I stroke my chin.”

Bill Nye

[NOTE: This position was retracted by Bill Nye less than four months later, per The Washington Post source March 3, 2015, below.]
Bill Nye Explains Why he is a GMO Skeptic, Discover Magazine, October 15, 2015, November 6, 2014, Keith, Kloor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/11/06/bill-nye-explains-gmo-skeptic,

Bill Nye Quotes about the world

“The Earth has never warmed this fast. We need to see how much we can change the world in the next 20 years.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

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

Bill Nye

[9, NewsBank, Click Life - Where kids get plugged in, New York Daily News, July 2, 2000, Alissa MacMillan]

“It's not cool … or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Meagan Engle, ‘Science Guy' Nye tells Miami students to ‘change the world', Oxford Press, Ohio, January 31, 2011]

“What we want to do is not just less, but do more for less. I want the United States to lead the world in this. The more we mess around with this denial, the more we lose.”

Bill Nye

Source: [NewsBank, Sandy Fitzgerald, Marsha Blackburn Takes on 'Science Guy' on Climate Change, Newsmax.com, February 16, 2014]

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]

“I went to Monsanto, and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there, and I have revised my outlook, and I'm very excited about telling the world. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.”

Bill Nye

[The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/03/proof-hes-the-science-guy-bill-nye-is-changing-his-mind-about-gmos/, October 15, 2015, Proof he’s the Science Guy: Bill Nye is changing his mind about GMOs, Puneet, Kollipara, March 3, 2015]

Bill Nye Quotes about change

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Fully loaded robot heading off to Mars, November 20, 2011]

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Bill Nye ‚ Foundation fundraiser guy, The Reporter, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2006, Jeff Ertz]

“We have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing. There is no debate in the scientific community.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Bill Nye , ‘the science guy,’ vs. Marsh Blackburn, the climate change skeptic congresswoman, Knoxville News Sentinel: Blogs, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 17, 2014]

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Sandy Fitzgerald, Marsha Blackburn Takes on 'Science Guy' on Climate Change, Newsmax.com, February 16, 2014]

“Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron? … Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on? … In these cases, for me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen. … That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.”

Bill Nye

Bill Nye, "Science Guy," Open to Jail Time for Climate Change Skeptics http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/15/bill-nye-science-guy-open-to-jail-time-f in Reason.com (15 April 2016)

“It will take more time for the change we have to effect, but we don't have more time. The carbon dioxide on Earth, just in the last four years, has increased from.03 percent to.04 percent. And the change will have a significant impact on everyone.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

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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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Meagan Engle, ‘Science Guy' Nye tells Miami students to ‘change the world', Oxford Press, Ohio, January 31, 2011]

Nature

“When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Lily Kuo, Bill Nye the Science Guy: - Creationism not good for kids, The Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 28, 2012, Reuters]

“We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Lily Kuo, Bill Nye the Science Guy: - Creationism not good for kids, The Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 28, 2012, Reuters]

Future

Bill Nye Quotes

“The invention process is a great exercise for kids. It compels them to define an actual problem, formulate an original solution, develop a product, and share the results or products with their friends and peers.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nurturing the inventor in your child, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 25, 2000, Pam Cloud Smith]

Exercises , Problem

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 'The Science Guy' returns to tackle issues for older audience, Journal Gazette, Mattoon, Illinois, June 8, 2005, Associated Press]

Education

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 35, Associated Press, TV host decries U.S. failure to value science, math education, The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 2000]

School , Study , Science

“Good science makes a clean environment.”

Bill Nye

[B2, Legislature: Science guy tells rally: Vote, The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, February 3, 2000, Karen Gaudette, Associated Press, NewsBank]

Science

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 03I, Science Guy Wants You to Ask, 'Why?', The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, October 24, 2001, Connie A. Higgins]

World , Thinking

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]

Problem

“When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]

People

“Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Tom Beal, Space research here faces a horizon of closures, cuts, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona, February 15, 2012]

Country

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

Bill Nye

[N1, Champs Science Bowl goes to NOHO, Daily News of Los Angeles, February 20, 2000, Amy Raisin, NewsBank]

Science , Dependency

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, J.D. Velasco, Study: California's elementary schools barely teach science, The Whittier Daily News, California, October 25, 2011]

Education , Science

“Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 03I, Science Guy Wants You to Ask, 'Why?', The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, October 24, 2001, Connie A. Higgins]

Food , Water , Sun

“If we continue to eschew science … we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, A12, 'Science Guy' Bill Nye defends evolution in debate, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota, February 5, 2014, Dylan Lovan, Associated Press]

Law , Nature , Science

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 3, Sarah Whitman, Age-old feud: In the beginning, Tampa Bay Times, Florida, February 7, 2014]

Law , Understanding , Nature , Science

“Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 3, Sarah Whitman, Age-old feud: In the beginning, Tampa Bay Times, Florida, February 7, 2014]

Nature , Joy

“There are major issues that people - as taxpayers and voters - will have to make informed decisions on in the near future. They will need to understand the science and the ethical considerations to form their opinions. Some of these are issues that will affect humanity for decades to come.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 'The Science Guy' returns to tackle issues for older audience, Journal Gazette, Mattoon, Illinois, June 8, 2005, Associated Press]

People , Understanding , Decision , Science

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 4, 2014]

World , Star , Distant

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 'Science Guy' Visits Volcano, The Chronicle, Centralia, Washington, May 18, 2009, Paula Collucci]

Change

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

World , Change

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, J.D. Velasco, Study: California's elementary schools barely teach science, The Whittier Daily News, California, October 25, 2011]

Education , Science

“People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]

Children , People

“I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Lily Kuo, Bill Nye the Science Guy: - Creationism not good for kids, The Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 28, 2012, Reuters]

World , Universe

“I find both humor and grimness in most issues.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, E1, That science guy is back, in 'Eyes of Nye', Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, April 5, 2005, Tom Paulson]

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]

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

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

Women , Thinking , Parent

“When people start rejecting the fundamental understanding of the world that scientific process brings you, well, that's bad in my opinion.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]

People , World , Understanding

“The problem is we have this thin atmosphere and a lot of people trying to breathe it. It's this thinness of the atmosphere that has allowed humankind to accidentally change the climate of the planet.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Popular science guy, The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California, March 21, 2014, Sherri Cruz]

People , Problem , Change

“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not gonna get the right answer. Your whole world is just gonna be — a mystery. Instead of an exciting place.”

Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children http://youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU on YouTube (23 August 2012)

Life , World , Idea , Science

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 4, 2014]

People , World , Religion , Communication

“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.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

Cars , Personality

“You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Sandy Fitzgerald, Marsha Blackburn Takes on 'Science Guy' on Climate Change, Newsmax.com, February 16, 2014]

Understanding , Science , Change

“If you could invent a better battery, one that can store more energy using less exotic metal, one that could handle the heat without loss of performance or just plain catching on fire, we could store energy from the wind and the Sun and have it available whenever we need it. You would change the world all right. You might also get rich – crazy rich!”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Bill Nye challenges grads to 'change the world', The Eagle Tribune, Lawrence, Massachusetts, May 18, 2014]

World , Loss , Sun , Change

“Nye grew up in a science-minded family in Washington, D. C. His mom was a math and science whiz. His dad manufactured sundials. His grandfather was an organic scientist. Fittingly, one of young Bill’s favorite hangouts was the original Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which looked like a small Quonset hut.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]

Family , Science , Moms

“A graduate of Cornell University, Nye began his career as an engineer. In fact, Boeing still uses his hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor today.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, 'Science Guy' Visits Volcano, The Chronicle, Centralia, Washington, May 18, 2009, Paula Collucci]

Universe

“Nye, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University, combined his love of science with his flair for comedy when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest in Seattle.”

Bill Nye

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

Universe , Science , Love , Making love