Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Future, Science

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

• If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Empowering, Understanding, Different

• The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, I Don't Need You, Labs

• There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, Chemistry, Physics

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

• There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my digital detector. And then I started feeling bad for the photon, and I said maybe it wanted to continue but I got in its way. But then I said, no, those are probably happier photons than the one that slammed into the mountainside that will go unanalyzed and will not contribute to the depth of our understanding of the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Journey, Years

• Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, Failing, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, Space, People

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• 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.

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