Bill Nye Quotes

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

When the alternative may be death, condom distribution is worth trying.

We can win a war in 100 days but we can't teach our people how to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

You can’t have a campaign against AIDS that emphasizes global abstinence.

We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms. It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.

I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?

In the name of rolling back AIDS we've inundated this country with condoms.

We all want abstinence. And if I knew how to get abstinence I would do whatever it takes to do that ... Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

You've been preaching abstinence as long as you've been preaching. But I've still got a problem.

Let us be brave and change our life style. Let us stick to our single partners and stop over-indulging. If we cannot do it, let us use condoms.