WhenIWasYourAge: People were never “living with their disease.” We cured them. Or they died from it.
WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.
I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there’ll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.
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.
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
We are not figuratively, but literally Stardust.
Once something is answered, then there’s another question. Hence the eternal quest.
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle’s falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
I didn’t even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don’t know that they’re there, you don’t know that you’re missing them.
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don’t even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there’s no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
I’d like – inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, “How do I get my kids interested in science?” They’re already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.