Bill Nye
Bill Nye
William Sanford "Bill" Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy, and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator. Currently, he is the CEO of The Planetary Society...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth27 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
people world sometimes
To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
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What happens to other species also happens to us.
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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.
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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.
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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
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We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
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To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
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After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
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When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
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As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.