Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
want firsts opinion
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
stars clouds crucible
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.
want followers realizing
I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"
morning smell simple-life
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
teaching school sunday
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.
space dinosaurs today
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
secret brain mystery
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
universe
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.
trying taught chemistry
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
people would-be world
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.
knowing people curiosity
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
winning past sincerity
This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.
kids stuff exploration
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
discovery
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.