Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

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 abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.