All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Interpretation
Dreaming big in STEM fields can lead to great achievements, especially with organizations like NASA.
Neil Degrasse Tyson emphasizes the importance of ambition and dreaming big within the traditional STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. He suggests that organizations like NASA foster an environment where such aspirations thrive, allowing individuals to contribute to groundbreaking achievements and innovations in these critical areas.
In practice
In a talk about inspiring the next generation of scientists, this quote serves as a powerful reminder of the possibilities within STEM.
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
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Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.
I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.
It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a book warehouse and was assigned to the third floor where all the children's books were. For four and a half years, I spent all day, every day around children's books, and it wasn't long before I fell in love with them.
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
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