"If you could invent a better battery, one that can store more energy using less exotic metal, one that could handle the heat without loss of performance or just plain catching on fire, we could store energy from the wind and the Sun and have it available whenever we need it. You would change the world all right. You might also get rich – crazy rich!"

“I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.”

“Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.”

“Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.”

“Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.”

“Nye worked for Boeing from 1977 through most of 1980, but left to take a position as a licensed mechanical engineer for the state of Washington.”

“I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.”