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“In that sense, talking about “everything” is easy. Everything you and I know, and everything we need to know, is already out there for the taking.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“The process of science and natural laws don’t care about our politics or preconceptions. They merely set the boundaries of what is possible, defining the outer limits of what we can achieve—or not, should we shy away from the challenge.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“Fortunately, there is a large and growing clan of people who think that way, who love nothing better than using the tools of reason to solve the most unsolvable-looking puzzles. We call them “nerds,” and I humbly (proudly) count myself among them.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“It played with it for a while, but it was obvious that the hand did not belong to a person used to opening things. In short, Death came out of the stove. Exactly how would be difficult to describe without folding the page.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Shame about all the rubbish. It always turns up, doesn’t it…” “Yes,” said Lu-Tze. “It’s part of the pattern.” “What? The old cigarette packet?” “Certainly. That invokes the element of air,” said Sweeper. “And the cat doings?” “To remind us that disharmony, like a cat, gets everywhere.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“I heard the wizards talking about that at a posh reception once. They were…arguing about the Glorious 25th of May.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“If someone said, “I’m going to take a shower,” someone else would crack, “Be sure to put it back.” If you don’t grasp that joke, irony is not your strength. Maybe it’s more aluminum-y .”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“The best chance we have of ensuring that we are not blindly ruled by the strong influences of our family, friends, and social conditioning is to follow that method: Observe, hypothesize, experiment, compare result with expectations, and—most importantly—start over. It’s a way to escape the echo chamber in your own head. It’s a workout routine for exercising your free will.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“It reminds me of advice that the television host Tom Bergeron (you probably know him from America’s Funniest Home Videos and Dancing with the Stars) told me: “Turn your nervousness into excitement.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“neltiliztli.” It is an Aztec term meaning “well-rooted, authentic, and true.” It was their guideline for how to live a good life in an uncertain world on a sometimes- dangerous Earth, not by seeking power or affirmation but by doing your best to be in balance with your surroundings. The Aztecs—a society that most of us in the West do not associate with science—came up with a beautifully succinct expression for nerd honesty.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber,” he muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Sorry, what we taught you is no longer true. Please return your brain for a free upgrade.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“It does seem ironic that the evil should be saved along with the good. Perhaps human definitions are not always honored by nature. But I, like you, am a realist. I don’t pretend to understand how we got here—but I do not question that we are here.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon