Neil deGrasse Tyson - “When I think of science, I think of a truly human activity”
I’ll also suggest this more in-depth look at Dr. Tyson’s monologue from Maria Popova. My addition:
Our desire for answers and our ability to experiment extend far beyond the realm of the laboratory, although science is the example we can most easily distill. Especially easy for people like me, because I eat, sleep and breathe science prettymuch. But if we begin to look at how a child interacts with their world, completely wide open to both the question and the answer, immune to prejudices of observation and interpretation, we begin to see that what we may applaud as the “beauty of science” and the “power of technology” and the “fruits of dedicated research” are really just an extension of what makes us human.
“Every child is a scientist.”
(via divineirony)
