Before Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their…

— Carl Sagan

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

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want…

— Brian Greene

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

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

— Joseph Campbell

“In a way our job is not so much to inspire the scientist in kids, but rather to allow it to grow on its…

— Rivka Galchen

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very…

— David Cronenberg

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

— Brian Andreas

Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps…

— Otto Robert Frisch

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

— Anonymous