Everything All at Once Quotes

“With that in mind, here’s my Nerd Code of Conduct: ■Be open and be honest. ■Don’t pretend you know what you don’t know (often a little too easy to do). ■Show the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it would be. ■Respect facts; don’t deny them just because you don’t like them. ■Move forward only after you trust your design.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“We can change the world. I’m sure of it. Let’s go.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All At Once

“The solution to feeling like an imposter is to be authentic, and the path of authenticity is the path to a better world.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All At Once

“Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans”
― Bill Nye, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

“This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“We do not have to accept things the way they are. We can nudge, adapt, revise, evolve, improve...and change the world.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All At Once

“At all ages, we should aspire to our own little explosive acts of progress and constructive defiance.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All At Once

“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

“Despite being more connected than ever before, we’re not particularly generous toward, or understanding of, one another, preferring to hide behind denial and personal bias.”
― Bill Nye, Everything All At Once