Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.Neil deGrasse Tyson
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook -
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant -
When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
Gail Parent -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
A good leader must be fair.
Yao Ming -
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
Campbell Scott -
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
Jack McDevitt -
For economist the real world is often a special case.
Edgar Fiedler -
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
Nate Lowman -
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
Karen Armstrong
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I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.
David Slade -
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.
Sadegh Hedayat -
I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
Laura Branigan -
You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'
F. Melvin Hammond -
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
Edward Abbey -
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.
Neil deGrasse Tyson