Philosophy
Recently, with his characteristic passion and erudite informality, Neil deGrasse Tyson delivered the keynote speech at the National Space Symposium, and continued to make the case, as he has recently, that we ought to increase funding for NASA and space exploration.
While most arguments tend to rely on economic and practical, palpable benefits that such exploration and research can produce, this speech makes a bolder claim: that our very national identity and the greatness of our our country (intellectual, cultural, scientific) depends upon the inspiration that NASA produces in the minds of future inventors, discoverers and thinkers. The economic benefits which such greatness almost inevitably produces are simply a nice side benefit that we get for free when we educate and inspire our children, and teach them to shoot for the stars.
When he hasn't had his coffee yet, he's kind of grouchy, isn't he? :)
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Philosophy
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space as Culture
While most arguments tend to rely on economic and practical, palpable benefits that such exploration and research can produce, this speech makes a bolder claim: that our very national identity and the greatness of our our country (intellectual, cultural, scientific) depends upon the inspiration that NASA produces in the minds of future inventors, discoverers and thinkers. The economic benefits which such greatness almost inevitably produces are simply a nice side benefit that we get for free when we educate and inspire our children, and teach them to shoot for the stars.
When he hasn't had his coffee yet, he's kind of grouchy, isn't he? :)
- "cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey"...a Review
Overall, the program was a dismal failure. It wasn't even an hour long being interrupted by dozens of commercials. Why didn't PBS pick up on this science program? I like Neil deGrasse Tyson but his presence as narrator simply failed to illuminate...
- Neil Degrasse Tyson Smacked By Kids Over Pluto's Status
"6 Angry Letters Kids Sent Neil deGrasse Tyson About Pluto" by Lucas Reilly August 4th, 2013 Mental Floss In 2000, the Rose Center for Earth and Space opened with a giant model of the solar system as its centerpiece. But something was different about...
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"Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Heroic Quest To Pinpoint Superman’s Home Planet" by Will Oremus November 9th, 2012 Slate Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist extraordinaire, can sometimes seem like a character in a superhero comic. Now he is one. Tyson,...
- Pluto, Tyson, Cnn Lecture
From CNN: "The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet" Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the controversy over re-classifying Pluto as a comet. New York's American Museum of Natural History, where this talk was held, was the...
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