Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
ideas answers driven
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
suicide fall science
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.
hero matter way
You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.
technology engineering vines
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.
science nucleus world
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.
mind wanted
I always wanted to be respected for my mind...
stars war real
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
pie half size
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
waiting challenges rewards
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
expectations five-senses modern
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.
creative blame problem
It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
ideas disagree
Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.
impossible workplace problem
How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!".
explorers humans decades
The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.