Bill Nye Quotes & Sayings

“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”

“If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.”

“NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.”

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

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

“There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.”

“Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.”

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

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

“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.”