Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
emotional law important
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
law culture matter
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
country technology care
Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.
legs entertainment sense-of-humor
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
sky worry long
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.
leadership wisdom spring
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
intelligent civilization listening
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.
thinking brain lessons
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
earth-life two different
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.
eye years two
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.
data answers scientist
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
wisdom nature science
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
earth matter aliens
Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.
school subjects
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.