Bill Nye Quotes

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

I think we know how to do Mars.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

Space is going to be commonplace.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.