Bill Nye Quotes

"Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over."
-Bill Nye

"My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. He designed a Nye family dial that kept time at our house in Washington, DC."
-Bill Nye

"He's not going to get re-elected, right...so he can just go for it!"
-Bill Nye

"We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up."
-Bill Nye

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

"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."
-Bill Nye

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does."
-Bill Nye

"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