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“Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Cows #Stores #Consumption
“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Dream #Thinking #Law
“Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Generations #Dinosaurs #Asteroids
“When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Expectations #Would Be #Overcoming
“Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Issues #Environmental #Today
“The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#School #Getting High #Way
“The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Facts #Evolution #Theory
“We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Believe #People #Facts
“The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Strong #Writing #Kids
“So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Life Changing #Thinking #Perspective
“To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Goes On #Looks #Calling
“What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Book #Parrots #Wells
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Inspirational #Obligation #Make Sense
“Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Exploration #Scientist #Discovering
“No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Clueless #School #Learning
“You will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Perspective #People #Community
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Children #Teaching #Years
“Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Doe #Feels #Universe
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Philosophy #Knowledge #Kids
“I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Hard Work #Thinking #People
“Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Writing #Sea #People
“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Teacher #Students #Failing
“After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Jobs #Integrity #Educational
“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Bad Ass #Two #Space
“Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Flow #Tomorrow #Problem
“You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Kids #Cake #Awards
“The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Thinking #People #Lines
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Beauty #Earth #Energy
“We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Country #Strong #Technology
“It's better to understand something than to memorize something.”
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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