Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• 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

• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Animal, Two

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

• Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Talking, Priorities, Challenges

  "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice". m.imdb.com. 2016.

• No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Class, Challenges, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars...well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Ideas, Space

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

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