"I would teach how science works as much……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love,…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't…
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are…
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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did…
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I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't…
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the…
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto'…
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person…
— Alfred Adler
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
— David Cameron
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil…
— Albert Camus
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day…
— Barack Obama
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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