FIRST OF ALL, thank you very much for this award. It's physically beautiful but, of course, spiritually (can I say spiritually here?) it makes you feel good. I was very excited to do this talk tonight until just a few minutes ago. Someone came up to me and said, "Is Bill Nye your real name?" And I said, "It's William Nye." Everything was going fine but then he said, "Why did you change it?" And this gets into the notion of critical thinking skills and questioning things.
