Science Literacy Quotes

• El objetivo de la educación es sustituir una mente vacía por otra abierta.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspiración, Educación, Viajes

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• Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flow, Tomorrow, Problem

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

  Grace Slick

  Retirement, Reading, Two

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• Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Vaccines, World

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• 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.

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• People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Empowerment

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• I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Knowing, People, Curiosity

  Interviews from Reddit's "ask me anything" forums, www.reddit.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

  James Murdoch

  Communication, People, Choices

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

  Philip Kitcher

  Desire, Literacy, Ability

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Pensamiento, Personas, Líneas

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Water

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Puedes hacer una pila lo bastante alta como para llegar a la Luna y volver, y sólo entonces habrás utilizado tus 100.000 millones de hamburguesas. Estas son noticias aterradoras para las vacas.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ciencia, Luna, Noticias

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• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wall, Science, Numbers

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). "Muerte por agujero negro: y otros dilemas cósmicos", p. 301, W. W. Norton & Company.

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• And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Yellow, White

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Adventure, Kids

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• Es asombroso darse cuenta de que, hasta que Galileo realizó sus experimentos sobre la aceleración de la gravedad a principios del siglo XVII, nadie cuestionó la caída de las bolas de Aristotle. Nadie dijo: ¡Muéstrame!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Otoño, Ciencia, Bolas

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• Un anuncio de televisión debe ilustrar el método científico para fundamentar cualquier afirmación..... Por eso se quitan las manchas, se eliminan los anillos del cuello, se empapan las toallas de papel, se absorbe el exceso de ácido estomacal y desaparecen los dolores de cabeza, todo ello durante el anuncio.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Going Away, Scientific Method

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• Fallamos incluso en la más simple de todas las observaciones científicas: ya nadie mira hacia arriba.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Looks, Literacy

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

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• I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Science, Missing

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• For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Science, Safety

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.154, Prometheus Books

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• Hay un teorema que se traduce coloquialmente: No se puede peinar el pelo de una bola de bolos. ... Está claro que ninguno de estos matemáticos tenía afro, porque peinar un afro es arrancarlo directamente del cuero cabelludo. Si las bolas de bolos tuvieran afros, entonces sí, podrían peinarse sin violar los teoremas matemáticos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Hair, Balls

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• La última vez que lo comprobé, Bill Gates valía 50.000 millones de dólares. Si el adulto medio empleado, que camina con prisa, recogerá una moneda de 25 centavos de la acera, pero no una de 10 centavos, entonces la cantidad de dinero correspondiente dada su riqueza relativa que Bill Gates ignoraría si la viera tirada en la calle es de 25.000 dólares.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mentira, Ciencia, Media

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). "Muerte por agujero negro: y otros dilemas cósmicos", p. 301, W. W. Norton & Company.

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• A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Common Sense, Brain

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.135, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Aunque perdamos de vista ciertos objetivos de forma intermitente a lo largo de las décadas, creo que como nación podemos ser ágiles cuando lo necesitamos. Hoy se habla mucho de la necesidad de la alfabetización científica. Está en el orden del día como no lo había estado en décadas anteriores.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Track, Goal

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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