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School Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
- There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
- I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to…
- When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
- The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the…
- No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
- There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
- I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's…
- Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But…
- I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to…
- There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no…
More School Quotes
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles