One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your... →
Neil deGrasse Tyson
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to... →
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an... →
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99... →
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our... →
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature... →
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in... →