Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Dream, Future

• The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Dream, Science

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

• By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing, and that's making dreams come true ... How much would you pay for the universe?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Powerful, Agency

• I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Truth, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

• Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Gadgets, Filled

  "What's The Next Big Thing?". www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

• But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Science, Venus

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.216, W. W. Norton & Company

• There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Cities, Environmental

• When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wise, Country, Dream

• When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

• All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Math, Technology

• When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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