Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
Neil deGrasse TysonIn this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].
Neil deGrasse TysonWhen you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Neil deGrasse TysonWanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
Neil deGrasse TysonI am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
Neil deGrasse TysonTo assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson