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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

~Bill Nye

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

~Bill Nye

Topics: About Find Laugh More Opportunities Out World You

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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

~Bill Nye

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What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Ability Because Great Here Innovate Live Makes Move Our People Reason States Still United United States Wanted

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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.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Audience Coat Different Different Way Feel Jeans Show Shows Sport Strongly Than Tie Up Very Way You T-Shirt

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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.

~Bill Nye

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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

Topics: Earth Fiction Images Like Mars Minutes Now Observed Our Problems Science Science Fiction See Seeing Shadow Then Time Time Travel Travel

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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

~Bill Nye

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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Acid Air Atmosphere Being Billions Bone Clouds Deep Dry Earth Enough Evidence Good Had High Hot Hundred Lead Like Liquid Melt Miles Much Ocean Once Reach Similar Surface Thick Thinner Today Venus Water Years Years Ago

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You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Bow Dressed Formal More Straight Than Tie Tuxedo Wear You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 27th, 1955

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