Top 120 Bill Nye Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.”

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53. “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”

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54. “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.”

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55. “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?”

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56. “I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.”

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57. “Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”

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58. “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 beliefs.”

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59. “But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.”

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

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61. “Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.”

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62. “In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.”

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63. “A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.”

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64. “When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.”

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65. “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 with less. That’s the key to the future.”

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66. “The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.”

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67. “The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.”

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68. “Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.”

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69. “Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.”

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70. “Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.”

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71. “I like to regard myself as someone who’s capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.”

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72. “Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”

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73. “If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.”

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74. “We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”

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75. “If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don’t believe you. I mean, they’re lying.”

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76. “The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.”

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77. “One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.”

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78. “From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.”

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79. “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.”

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80. “I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.”

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81. “I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.”

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82. “How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?”

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83. “If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.”

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84. “That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.”

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85. “A woman came up to Michael Faraday after he performed this demonstration and asked: “But, Mr. Faraday, of what use is it?” Faraday famously replied, “Madam, of what use is a newborn babe?”

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86. “When religions disagree about just creation, there is nothing to do but argue. When two scientists disagree about evolution, they confer with colleagues, develop theories, collect evidence, and arrive at a more complete understanding. Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself.”

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87. “Try this way of picturing a human lifespan. The National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys’ stadium holds 105,000 people. Now, imagine that you’re watching life go by down on the field, and every day you watch that life go by from a different seat. You don’t even get a third of the way around. Before you’ve settled into a third of the seats, you’d be dead. And, that’s if you had a good run, eighty-two-plus years. Yikes!”

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88. “One organism’s trash is another organism’s treasure, as I like to say.”

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89. “From time to time, I meet someone who will say something like, “I am not afraid of dying.” I don’t buy it. Everyone is afraid of dying. It’s part of the instinct that helps us survive as a species. It’s a crucial feature of human evolution. It’s also, I strongly suspect, a crucial reason why so many people have trouble believing evolution is true. Life can be ironic like that.”

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90. “This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.”

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91. “Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans.”

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92. “Science is the best idea humans have ever had.”

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93. “People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.”

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94. “Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you, it is an essential biological part of who or what we are as a species.”

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95. “Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.”

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96. “There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.”

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97. “Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.”

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98. “Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a produce of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun.”

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99. “If the argument is, “Well, that was all part of the plan,” then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.”

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100. “The less we do to address climate change now, the more regulation we will have in the future.”

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