BILL NYE

After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.

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

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.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

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.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

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?

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

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.

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

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

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

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.

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

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.

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

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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.

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.

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.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.