Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
kids cake awards
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
thinking ideas giving
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.
ignorance atheism pockets
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
philosophy ignorance intelligent
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
space trying looks
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
asteroids saws dinosaurs
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
ignorance humans human-history
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
reading writing empathy
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
kind agree
I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.
cosmos might energy
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand
writing sea people
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.
stars crucible atoms
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
chosen
If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.
people support effort
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.