Bill Nye

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining. ”

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. ”

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. ”

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. ”

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. ”

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk. ”

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10. ”

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

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. ”

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ”