Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Water

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

• On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Conservative, Environment

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

• Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Kids, Curiosity

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview with Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

• There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Feelings, Energy, Environment

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Environment, Havoc

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