I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONToday, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONClaiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONTo learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONOne thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONSomehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONFacts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONEveryone should have their mind blown once a day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhat are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIn the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON