“I am trying to convince people — not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power — that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Ameri…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore — in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and l…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, cnn.com
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Hallmarks of disruptive innovators: introduced by an 'outsider,' / less expensive than existing products/ targeting underserved or new markets/ initially inferior to existing products/ advanced by an enabling technology.”— The New York Times, nytimes.com
“If a frog turns right and catches a fly, and then turns left and catches a fly, and then turns around backward and catches a fly, the purpose of the frog has to do not with turning left or right or backward but with catching flies. If a government proclaims its interest in protecting the environment…”— Donella H. Meadows, amazon.com
“The way to win a game like that involves maintaining and increasing the tension. The person who makes the first break, who releases the tension, it's going to go against them, partly because they've broken the tension and now the other guy has the first move to exploit the new play dynamic.”— Josh Waitzkin, amazon.com
“We choose things that are against our own best interests because the freedom to make that choice is more important than those interests.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“Everyone typically thinks that when you're intimately close to someone, like your husband or your wife or your mom or your dad, that it opens you up so much to all these powerful feelings of connectedness and enables you to understand the other person with such incredible empathy. But I really think…”— Mark Leyner, REAL HUSBAND, amazon.com
“...the likely future for North America is that of a coherent economic unit where the United States, Canada, and Mexico band together to make major investments in customized robot production and then use these investments to dominate global manufacturing.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure. And the fa…”— Clay Shirky, shirky.com