NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - The Most Human Activity
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0:06 - 0:10I can't think of any more human activity
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0:11 - 0:16than conducting science experiments.
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0:17 - 0:20That's what we do as human beings.
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0:20 - 0:25and we do that more thoroughly and better than any other species on earth
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0:25 - 0:27that we have yet encountered.
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0:28 - 0:34We explore our environment more than we are compelled to utter poetry when we're toddlers
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0:34 - 0:36We start doing that later.
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0:37 - 0:42Before that happens every child is a scientist.
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0:44 - 0:46Think about it! What the kids do?
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0:46 - 0:51Young kids, kids they can barely walk, what are they doing?
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0:51 - 0:58They are exploring their environment through experimentation.
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0:58 - 1:05I don't care about your economic background, I don't care what town you born in, what city, what country,
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1:05 - 1:08if you are a child you are curious about your environment,
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1:08 - 1:09you are overturning rocks
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1:09 - 1:14you are plucking leaves off a trees, and petals off a flowers, and looking inside,
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1:14 - 1:20and you are doing things create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
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1:20 - 1:22And so then, what the adults do?
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1:22 - 1:26They say, "Don't pluck the petals of the flowers. I just spent money on that.
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1:26 - 1:31Don't play with the egg. It might break. Don't …" Everything is a don't.
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1:34 - 1:36I'm often asked by parents
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1:36 - 1:41what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science?
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1:41 - 1:44And I have only one bit of advice.
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1:45 - 1:50Get out of their way! Kids are born curious. Period.
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1:58 - 2:00We spend the first year teaching them to walk and talk
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2:00 - 2:03and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
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2:04 - 2:06So... you get out of their way.
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2:06 - 2:12And you know what you do? You put things in their midst that help them explore. Help 'em explore.
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2:12 - 2:15Why don't you get a pair of binoculars, just leave it there one day?
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2:15 - 2:20Watch 'em pick it up. And watch 'em look around. They'll do all kind of things with it.
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2:20 - 2:24For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon,
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2:24 - 2:27and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better.
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2:27 - 2:31There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
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2:31 - 2:37I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up.
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2:37 - 2:42And so when i think of science I think of a truly human activity.
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2:42 - 2:46Something fundamental to our DNA.
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2:46 - 2:50Something that drives curiosity.
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2:50 - 2:55They go together. The act of being curious and the act of wanting to do the experiment.
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2:55 - 3:04When you conduct science it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider of what is true and what is not.
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3:05 - 3:08You have to create what it is that you do best
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3:08 - 3:13that layers onto the formal training that may be behind it.
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3:13 - 3:17I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society,
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3:17 - 3:26were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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3:27 - 3:33It's the great tragedy - People employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
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3:34 - 3:41And so... I think the greatest of people in society carved niches
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3:41 - 3:46that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents,
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3:47 - 3:55and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world,
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3:55 - 3:59our society would be transformed over night.
- Title:
- NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - The Most Human Activity
- Description:
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"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there." Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- Duration:
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