There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
From Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
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