“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]

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