Zitat des Tages von Bill Nye:
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.
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.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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.
Science rules!
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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.
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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?
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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.
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
