Bill Nye Quotes

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

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

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.