Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
people
All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.
truly
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
matter succeed needs
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
ambition discovery television
I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.
ideas answers driven
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
hero matter way
You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.
mind wanted
I always wanted to be respected for my mind...
teacher students failing
The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.
kids parent adults
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.
thinking two way
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.
thinking people lines
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
country strong technology
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.
believe people facts
We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.