We explore our environment, more than we are compe... -Neil deGrasse Tyson

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes to Explore

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that...

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 highe...

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So ...

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every chi...

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent D...

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, di...

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached....

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to t...

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...