Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mom, Dad, Philosophy

• To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Home, Science

• What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Science, Way

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

• When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Space, Needs

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

• Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Cities, Tomorrow

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Home, Parent

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

• Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.complex.com

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