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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there’s someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait Picture Quote #1

I’ve spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I’m an academic. Being an academic means I don’t wield power over person, place or thing. I don’t command armies; I don’t lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought Picture Quote #1

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives Picture Quote #1

There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives Picture Quote #1

I’m constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn’t create the Wiki page, others did, and I’m flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, ‘Neil deGrasse is an atheist.’ Picture Quote #1

I’m just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread Picture Quote #1

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A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data Picture Quote #1

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don’t get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong Picture Quote #1

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us Picture Quote #1

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time Picture Quote #1

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier Picture Quote #1

We’re talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe Picture Quote #1

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Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing Picture Quote #1

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it Picture Quote #1

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn’t matter where you were born, and it doesn’t matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you’ll get the same result Picture Quote #1

You can’t train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they’re clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that’s true for any field Picture Quote #1

It’s the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don’t fully tap everything they do best in life Picture Quote #1

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect Picture Quote #1

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When you’re enlightened, you don’t have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that’s a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally Picture Quote #1

We’re quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all Picture Quote #1

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it’s not simply, ‘Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?’ That’s an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that’s presented in front of you Picture Quote #1

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they’re on an unemployment line and can’t feed their families Picture Quote #1

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust Picture Quote #1

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist Picture Quote #1

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It seems that we’re better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them Picture Quote #1

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren’t always faithful to the core values of science Picture Quote #1

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it’s the brain wiring that I’m more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that’s been proposed Picture Quote #1

For decades, we’ve been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn’t seem to fit together, until now Picture Quote #1

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that’s hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people’s windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively Picture Quote #1

Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity Picture Quote #1

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Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there’s someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I’ve spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I’m an academic. Being an academic means I don’t wield power over person, place or thing. I don’t command armies; I don’t lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I’m constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn’t create the Wiki page, others did, and I’m flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, ‘Neil deGrasse is an atheist.’ (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I’m just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don’t get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) We’re talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn’t matter where you were born, and it doesn’t matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you’ll get the same result. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) You can’t train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they’re clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that’s true for any field. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) It’s the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don’t fully tap everything they do best in life. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) When you’re enlightened, you don’t have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that’s a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) We’re quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it’s not simply, ‘Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?’ That’s an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that’s presented in front of you. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they’re on an unemployment line and can’t feed their families. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) It seems that we’re better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren’t always faithful to the core values of science. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it’s the brain wiring that I’m more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that’s been proposed. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) For decades, we’ve been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn’t seem to fit together, until now. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that’s hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people’s windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes) Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes)

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