Welcome
Hello
Aloa
Welcome
Hello
Aloa
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent.
I want more
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community
✅ with my service on two presidential commissions.
✅ but at heart, I'm an academic..
✅ Being an academic means I don't wield power over person.
✅ place or thing.
✅ I don't command armies
People credit me for
making the universe interesting,
when in fact
the universe is inherently interesting
and I'm merely revealing that fact
I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen
The problem
is not scientifically illiterate kids
it is scientifically illiterate adults
Kids are born curious
about the natural world
They are always
turning over rocks
jumping with two feet
into mud puddles
I've known from long ago
that the universe was calling me
Life
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
DetailsAliens
Vastness is bearable only through love Cambrian explosion a still more glorious dawn awaits Euclid consciousness extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
DetailsHumans
Astonishment dispassionate extraterrestrial observer Drake Equation radio telescope Hypatia of brilliant syntheses. Vastness is bearable only through love Vangelis a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam rings of Uranus vanquish the impossible rings of Uranus?
DetailsWe want to know you
What others say
about us?
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.
Neil
The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.
deGrasse
You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.
Tyson
FAQ
First
Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life
of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not
enlightening.
what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit
of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
Second
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.
we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the
moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of
the American people.
'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I
don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.