Bill Nye

"Nye has been instrumental in making science fun for preteen audiences‚ but when he is speaking at a collegiate venue he focuses more on topics he’s serious about."

"I can be educational, but if I'm not funny and entertaining, too, who's going to come and listen to me or watch me on TV."

"Nye has won numerous daytime Emmy Awards and has been named outstanding performer in a children's series."

"I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it …"

"I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not em…"

"Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law."

"The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it."

"It will take more time for the change we have to effect, but we don't have more time. The carbon dioxide on Earth, just in the last four years, has increased from .03 percent to .04 percent. And the c…"