Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Consider an adult who tends to the traumas of a child: spilled milk, a broken toy, a scraped knee. As adults we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
