I can’t tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, ‘I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let’s go test that prediction,’ and have the prediction be correct. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It’s a slightly bigger moon; I ain’t using the adjective ‘supermoon.’ Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
There’s a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
I’m on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you’ve got to send humans. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, ‘Oh, let’s build a robot’ and what’s the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That’s so 1950s. We are so past that. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don’t mind if you’re not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you’ll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
