"As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.”
“Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?”
“I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.”
“I will never ever sell Neverland”
“Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.”
“Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.”

Source : "Q&A: Nick Kroll Tells You About His Feelings". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.
“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”
“It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining”

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