Bill Nye Quotes

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

We need to make science cool again.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing.

'The Daily Show' took a topic - politics - which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe 'Bill Nye Saves the World' can do the same for science.

When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.