Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
running oasis long-ago
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)
views differences perspective
Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.
country guarantees-that earth
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.
moon space doubt
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.
humble past cosmos
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.
smart hair earth
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?
legs entertainment middle
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
nations
Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
stars heart oxygen
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
wine past years
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
doors helping
What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?
bad-ass ideas space
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
math mind-blowing cosmos
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
ideas answers driven
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.