Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Art, Creativity, Night

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

• Jesus Christ rose up from the tomb. Well, he's the son of God, and now he's like God's spirit at this point. Why would a spirit need to move a rock? Why not just pass through the rock? But also, why wait for the guards to go to sleep?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jesus, Moving, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Waiting, Challenges, Rewards

• Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Names, People, Waiting

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