Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
taken adventure animal
I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.
smart artist doctors
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.
ignorance grows perimeter
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
discovery space would-be
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
ignorance vaccines world
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
data battle cry
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.
believe years light
To believe in a universe as young as 6- or 7,000 years old, is to extinguish the light of most of the galaxy.
culture alternatives stranger
If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?
eye intelligent technology
Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
should-have mind should
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
simple law culture
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.
kids scientist grew
A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.
airplane parent atmosphere
I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.
intelligent
We are only intelligent by our own measures