Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes — Page 27

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”

People Creative Discovery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.”

Mean Children Kids

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Philosophical

“The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.”

Phones Grandma Gps

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Philosophical

“I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.”

Culture Scientist Pops

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Philosophical

“Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer.”

Want Real Location

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Philosophical

“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.”

Thinking Dream Law

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Philosophical

“People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook.”

People Book Offering

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Grateful

“I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.”

People Thinking Hard Work

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Philosophical

“You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.”

Theory Cases Newton

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Philosophical

“If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.”

Believe Mean Religious

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Philosophical

“Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.”

Ideas Answers Driven

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Philosophical

“Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly.”

Real Eye Memories

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