Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tysonis an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].
We went to the moon and discovered earth
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.
To earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
It's my duty to enlighten people.
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.