Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Culture

• No quieres criar a un niño en una cultura en la que el niño que hace más preguntas es molesto. Quieres una cultura en la que el niño que haga más preguntas reciba premios y otro trozo de tarta.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Niños, Premios, Pastel

• No importa lo que sea el testimonio de un testigo ocular en un tribunal de justicia, es la forma más baja de prueba en un tribunal científico.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Derecho, Materia, Cultura

• Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fighting, Technology, Community

• I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Funny Graduation, Culture

• We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, People, Legacy

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.69, Prometheus Books

• Las verdades emocionales tejidas por los abogados en los tribunales son aparentemente más importantes que las verdades de los hechos reales. He llegado a temer por aquellos cuya inocencia quedó atrapada en el sistema legal.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Emotional, Law, Important

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.94, Prometheus Books

• Quizá estos antiguos observatorios, como Stonehenge, impresionan eternamente a los modernos porque éstos no tienen ni idea de cómo se mueven el Sol, la Luna o las estrellas. Estamos demasiado ocupados viendo la televisión por la noche como para preocuparnos de lo que ocurre en el cielo.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moving, Moon

• Durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980, la popular telenovela As The World Turns mostraba el amanecer durante los créditos iniciales y el atardecer durante los créditos finales... El amanecer de la telenovela mostraba el sol moviéndose hacia la izquierda mientras salía en lugar de hacia la derecha. Obviamente, habían conseguido un trozo de película que mostraba una puesta de sol y la habían reproducido al revés... Si hubieran llamado a sus astrofísicos locales, cualquiera de nosotros podría haberles recomendado que, si necesitaban ahorrar dinero, podrían haber mostrado la puesta de sol en un espejo antes de mostrarla corriendo hacia atrás.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

• The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Artist, Doctors

• They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Light, Air

• Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doctors, Beauty And Love, Long

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.33, Prometheus Books

• If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Culture, Alternatives, Stranger

• But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Media, Culture, News

• To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Simple, Law, Cosmos

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

• In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Real, Bad Ass

• La gran tragedia es que están eliminando el arte por completo, no porque estén poniendo más ciencia, sino porque no pueden permitirse los profesores de arte o porque alguien piensa que no es útil. Una sociedad ilustrada tiene todo esto en su seno. Es parte de lo que distingue al ser humano de otras formas de vida en la Tierra: que tenemos cultura.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

• No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Culture, Fundamentals

• When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Culture, Economy

• It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Giving, Personality

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

• For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, People, Innovation

  Fuente: blog.sfgate.com

• You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who do and you're going to protect the science curriculum in the classroom because you understand the meaning and the value of it. And science discoveries don't scare you. You say, "Give me more science", not less. "Give me more technology", not less.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, Technology, Discovery

  Fuente: blog.sfgate.com

• When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Men, Bridges

  Fuente: blog.sfgate.com

• I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Self, Civilization, Discovery

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

• I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Complaining, Culture, Literacy

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

• No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Ignorant, Devil

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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