1. “If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.” – Bill Nye
2. “Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.” – Bill Nye
3. “The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can’t be tested thats what we call pseudo-science. The difference between pseudo-science and science is whether or not you can test it.” – Bill Nye
4. “But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.” – Bill Nye
5. “The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.” – Bill Nye
6. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
7. “The moon is out all day. I don’t want to shock you.” – Bill Nye
8. “By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.” – Bill Nye
9. “The process of science and natural laws don’t care about our politics or preconceptions. They merely set the boundaries of what is possible, defining the outer limits of what we can achieve – or not, should we shy away from the challenge.” – Bill Nye
10. “Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.” – Bill Nye
11. “The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.” – Bill Nye
12. “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.” – Bill Nye
13. “Most of the living things on our planet are microscopic, and those microscopic organisms are less like you than you are like a cabbage.” – Bill Nye
14. “Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.” – Bill Nye
15. “There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.” – Bill Nye
16. “I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.” – Bill Nye
17. “To be successful as a living thing, you have to have offspring, who have offspring, who have offspring. Rest assured, your family did, or you wouldn’t be here. As troubling as it may seem, your parents had sex—at least once. If you have brothers and sisters, more than once … One shudders to think of it.” – Bill Nye
18. “There really is no such thing as race…” – Bill Nye
19. “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.” – Bill Nye
20. “Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.” – Bill Nye
21. “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.” – Bill Nye
22. “SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.” – Bill Nye
23. “More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean.” – Bill Nye
24. “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” – Bill Nye
25. “Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” – Bill Nye
26. “Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans” – Bill Nye
27. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” – Bill Nye
28. “Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.” – Bill Nye
29. “Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.” – Bill Nye
30. “The solution to feeling like an imposter is to be authentic, and the path of authenticity is the path to a better world.” – Bill Nye
31. “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.” – Bill Nye
32. “It’s survival of the hang-in-there’s, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.” – Bill Nye
33. “This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.” – Bill Nye
34. “I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.” – Bill Nye
35. “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.” – Bill Nye
36. “When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.” – Bill Nye
37. “What happens to other species also happens to us.” – Bill Nye
38. “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.” – Bill Nye
39. “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.” – Bill Nye
40. “Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.” – Bill Nye
41. “Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.” – Bill Nye
42. “everyone you meet knows something you don’t” – Bill Nye
43. “Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.” – Bill Nye
44. “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.” – Bill Nye
45. “Science is the best thing human beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.” – Bill Nye
46. “Our ancestors who did not have a fear of heights, who did not have a fear of eating something poisonous, who did not have a fear of venomous snakes and spiders, who were not afraid of drowning, well – they’re dead.” – Bill Nye
47. “Science is the best idea humans have ever had.” – Bill Nye
48. “Everyone that you’ll ever met wil know someone that you won’t” – Bill Nye
49. “Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.” – Bill Nye
50. “Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.” – Bill Nye
51. “We have to reengineer our technology, energy source by energy source – the things we really can control – not try to reengineer the whole planet. Our unintentional effect on the planet is how we got into this mess in the first place. We have to learn how to overcome the Second Law of Thermodynamics and find brilliant new ways of making energy without drowning in carbon.” – Bill Nye
52. “Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.” – Bill Nye
53. “We all have DNA, and it’s nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we’re close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it’s closer to 90 percent overall.” – Bill Nye
54. “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.” – Bill Nye
55. “People and stars are made of the same stuff.” – Bill Nye
56. “We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.” – Bill Nye
57. “If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don’t believe you. I mean, they’re lying.” – Bill Nye
58. “Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people.” – Bill Nye
59. “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” – Bill Nye
60. “We are killing off species at the rate of about one per day. It is estimated that humans are driving species to extinction at least a thousand times faster than the otherwise natural rate.” – Bill Nye
61. “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.” – Bill Nye
62. “Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.” – Bill Nye
63. “The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.” – Bill Nye
64. “How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?” – Bill Nye
65. “I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.” – Bill Nye
66. “I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.” – Bill Nye
67. “The yearning to know about nature and where or how we fit in is deep within all of us.” – Bill Nye
68. “We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.” – Bill Nye
69. “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.” – Bill Nye
70. “You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.” – Bill Nye
71. “We can become a great generation that leaves our world – our home – in better shape than it is now while raising the quality of life for people everywhere. This will not be easy. We’ve already loaded the atmosphere with enough heat-trapping gases of various kinds to cause our planet to keep warming for many, many years to come. But the situation is far from hopeless.” – Bill Nye
72. “The less we do to address climate change now, the more regulation we will have in the future.” – Bill Nye
73. “I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.” – Bill Nye
74. “This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.” – Bill Nye
75. “Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.” – Bill Nye
76. “There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.” – Bill Nye
77. “We can change the world. I’m sure of it. Let’s go.” – Bill Nye
78. “Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a produce of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun.” – Bill Nye
79. “I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.” – Bill Nye
80. “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?” – Bill Nye
81. “That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.” – Bill Nye
82. “In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.” – Bill Nye
83. “The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.” – Bill Nye
84. “Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.” – Bill Nye
85. “No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.” – Bill Nye