Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Be like the mayfly – in this short and lovely meditation on life and longevity, the one and only Neil deGrasse Tyson adds to other famous reflections on the meaning of life.
Also see Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom.
“Cosbros” by Joe Hanson, inspired by this 1971 conversation between Sagan, Bradbury, and Clarke.
An astrophysicist who moonwalks better than Jacko – is there anything Neil deGrasse Tyson can’t do? Watch our modern-day Carl Sagan bust out some serious moves on the dance floor.
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“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson echoes John Keats, Orson Welles, Richard Feynman, and Robert Sapolsky in making a case for the power of ignorance in science.
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. It is you get to something you don’t understand, and then you stop. You say, ‘God did it,’ and you no longer progress beyond that point.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.
British polymath Francis Galton and the science behind the wisdom of crowds, explained by none other than Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us inside NASA’s undersea mission to save Earth from an asteroid, all the more reason why space exploration needs all the support it can get but is hardly getting.
Neil deGrasse Tyson found this gem. (But who made it?) Tyson’s more serious thoughts on the future of space exploration here.
In scientific inquiry, often the answer to one simple question fortuitously explains the answers to many others; they may even answer questions that have yet to be conceived. Powerful ideas unify concepts or phenomena that were previously thought to be unrelated.
Neil deGrasse Tyson adds to some of history’s most beautiful definitions of science.
The man is a science-sage of the finest variety.
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has his very own Explore tag.
Hear him at his most eloquent.
A second-grader asks Neil deGrasse Tyson whether two black holes can collide and swallow one another. The answer involves backwards time travel – enough said.
If I discover a scientific idea, surely someone else would’ve discovered the same idea had I not done so. Whereas, look at Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” — if he didn’t paint “Starry Night,” nobody’s gonna paint “Starry Night.” So, in that regard, the arts are more individual to the creative person than a scientific idea is to the one who comes up with it — but, nonetheless, they are both human activities.
