Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
conduct natural nature science ultimate
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
cosmos deflect power
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
assert claim prone science scientists simply somehow
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
apparent applying evident sure system
The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.
motivated people presented
The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
best employed fully great life people tap tragedy ways
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
people perspective
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
maybe turns
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
matter succeed needs
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
ambition discovery television
I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.
ideas answers driven
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
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.
mind wanted
I always wanted to be respected for my mind...
teacher students failing
The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.