Any Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such…

— Greg Graffin

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally…

— Donna Strickland

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might…

— Mae Jemison

My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me…

— Carl Sagan

“We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to…

— Anonymous

Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence…

— Sandra Faber

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

— Nancy Roman

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start…

— Mae Jemison

Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize…

— Philip Kitcher