Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Neil deGrasse Tyson quotes and sayings page 7 (66 year old scientist). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 125 we have for him.
“One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.”
“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.”
“I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.”
“Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.”
“It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.”
“You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.”
“Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.”
“All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.”
“In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.”
“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.”
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