Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

We can learn from everybody, man.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.