“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]

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