“I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
"If every day were Earth Day we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awareness
"If every day were #EarthDay we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awareness
"If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awareness
"If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awareness
"Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awareness
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education