School Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

19 School quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Tyson’s school reflections blend scientific wonder with societal context. Nineteen snippets capture his enthusiasm for curiosity and the role of education in shaping minds.

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When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

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Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point…

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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

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The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being…

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The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one…

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Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were…

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My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was…

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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if…

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There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never…

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I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics…

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My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when…

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The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for…

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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the…

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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…

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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if…

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When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive…

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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get…

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

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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…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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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…

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They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…

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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…

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