Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR. Neil deGrasse Tyson More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson More Quotes From Neil deGrasse Tyson If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles. Neil deGrasse Tyson denying-god miracle want Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on. Neil deGrasse Tyson different-nationalities textbooks people When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before. Neil deGrasse Tyson airplane bridges men The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats. Neil deGrasse Tyson just-one hats earth You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences. Neil deGrasse Tyson life-experience writing Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. 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Because it's something new about the physical universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson something-new spiritual would-be While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story. Neil deGrasse Tyson fiction-stories real fall The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson destiny earth littles The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live. Neil deGrasse Tyson discovery adventure america Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security. Neil deGrasse Tyson luxury educational views Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large. Neil deGrasse Tyson universe doe feels There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example. Neil deGrasse Tyson space moon doubt One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle. Neil deGrasse Tyson peaceful circles perfect While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades. Neil deGrasse Tyson track goal thinking I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office. Neil deGrasse Tyson wake-up coffee office
