Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
What did he do?
What did he do?
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
Written books, published research, doctorate from Columbia as well as received honorary doctorates, won awards. He also made science cool again to an apathetic generation.
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
Wasted his genius and degree trying to get retards to stop being so stupid.
To quote Katy Perry, from Tyson's show Star Talk: "Is math related to science?"
Too bad only a fraction of them get beyong funky pictures on Facebook saying "Like this if you love science!"
So basically he did this :2brickwal. Got it.
Actually after looking him up he has some chops and made a major discovery regarding the Hubble constant and type 2 supernovae. That lead to a Nobel Prize for someone else following up on the work and lead to some theories about dark matter and helped with resolution on the Hubble Telescope. Actually he doesn't spend all of his time getting a mushy head. He's definitely NOT a Bill Nye. He will have a footnote or two in a journal or two.
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
Well, I'm sure that he has made valuable contributions to the scientific community. Beyond the "tag a person who wants to bone science" fanfare.
It's a paradoxical age. Information at our fingertips, cat videos and false memes reign supreme.
Someone more learned than I compared our age to the Byzantine era on facebook. Citing that the Byzantines had access to a wealth of knowledge from the Roman republic and empire, but, their historians had their heads up their asses.
that is second hand, and I don't stand by it, but, I find it amusing if historically accurate.
Very doubtful. He's done some science, yes... but mostly he's just a populist whose fame has gone to his head. IMHO.
I'll only remember him as a pompous windbag who's in love with himself and thinks he's so smart he can try and make a flowery response to a question without being utterly transparent.
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
Another terrible example of Tyson trying to echo the insight of Carl Sagan, and failing miserably.
Tyson is an example of what happens when you mix entertainment and science - you make people think science is all poetry, and finding meaning in things. Science is about better understanding the world in order for humans to build better civilizations, so we can live longer fuller lives, and survive the hazards of nature. Religion, politics, and philosophy should have as little to do with science as possible, only coming into conversations when absolutely necessary.
He's not the only one. Nye, Krauss, Weinberg, Dawkins, and Stenger are also WAY to political in mixing their anti-theism in their public relations. It's one thing to criticize creationism, climate denial, and other pseudoscience, but to attack religion constantly is to alienate 90% of the public away from science.
I say this is an agnostic leftist that loves science.
Will history remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a great scientist?
I think he will be remembered as a really good science educator. I'm not sure what he has accomplished specifically in his field, but he has definitely stepped up as one of the most recognizable scientists because of his work on NOVA and Cosmos among other things.