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

“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 an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.”
― Bill Nye

“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
― Edgar Wilson Nye

“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

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

“The moon is out all day. I don't want to shock you.”
― Bill Nye

“The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't”
― Bill Nye

“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.”
― Bill Nye

“America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.”
― Bill Nye, Comic History of the United States

“What happens to other species also happens to us.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“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 with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.”
― Bill Nye

“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, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.”
― Bill Nye

“Science is the best idea humans have ever had.”
― Bill Nye

“The essence of the evening was captured by a question from the audience. Someone asked: “What would it take to change your worldview?” My answer was simple: Any single piece of evidence. If we found a fossilized animal trying to swim between the layers of rock in the Grand Canyon, if we found a process by which a new huge fraction of a radioactive material’s neutrons could become protons in some heretofore fantastically short period of time, if we found a way to create eleven species a day, if there were some way for starlight to get here without going the speed of light, that would force me and every other scientist to look at the world in a new way. However, no such contradictory evidence has ever been found—not any, not ever.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“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, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“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, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“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

“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, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”
― Bill Nye

“they avoid the exploration of evolution, because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in nature’s scheme. What happens to other species also happens to us.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring, that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”
― Bill Nye

“With that in mind, here’s my Nerd Code of Conduct: ■Be open and be honest. ■Don’t pretend you know what you don’t know (often a little too easy to do). ■Show the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it would be. ■Respect facts; don’t deny them just because you don’t like them. ■Move forward only after you trust your design.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

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

“As I learned more about evolution, I realized that from nature’s point of view, you and I ain’t such a big deal. Humans are just another species on this planet trying to make a go of it, trying to pass our genes into the future, just like chrysanthemums, muskrats, sea jellies, poison ivy … and bumblebees.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation