Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
ignorance discovery imagination
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
atheist science religion
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
clouds might path
Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.
growing-up real long-ago
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist .' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
taken school thinking
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 easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
ignorance knowing mind-blowing
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
world blind natural
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
philosophy science technology
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
philosophy important movement
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.
epic people events
Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.
fighting technology community
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
universe
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.
rocks earth asteroids
Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites.
photography time-travel form
Photography is a form of time travel.