Category: astrophysicist
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When an industry matures, it means it’s not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That’s the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don’t get angry when a corporation does that; we’ve all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’m on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow – with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present – then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that’s where we’re headed.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Many academicians don’t even own a television, much less watch one.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we’re the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
Neil deGrasse Tyson