Bill Nye Quotes

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• Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
• People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more…
• People and stars are made of the same stuff.
• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as…
• Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
• History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal…
• America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
• The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your…
• I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more…
• As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on…
• I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful…
• I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's…
• In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
• If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature…
• The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
• If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and…
• People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna…
• There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
• To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
• I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and…

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