“Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.”

“What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.”

“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”

“Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.”

“You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.”

“I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.”

“I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.”

“Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.”

“Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.”

“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”

“Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.”