I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study… — 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
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