Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
reality people decision
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
children teaching years
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
culture enlightening embrace
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.
thinking knowing empowering
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
believe science bad-ass
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
chosen
I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career.
inspirational chalk obligation
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
block trying together
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.
fall space black
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?
common
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.
nature important facts
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
philosophy knowledge kids
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
moving mean ignorance
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem