![]() & the beautiful “trouble” he went through Through his telescope’s long, black eye, which, Long enough to offer them (the cops) a view Or maybe even earlier, & you might be holding You know that the boy is in grave danger, Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Center for Inquiry, 2007 And I wonder, What is along the tracks that I happened to survive and others did not? Simply because of the forces that prevented it. ![]() Anytime I expressed this interest teachers would say, Don’t you want to be an athlete? Or, Don’t you wanna . . . I wanted to become something that was outside of the paradigms of expectation of the people in power.Īnd I look behind me and say, Well, where are the others who might have been this? And they’re not there. & all I can say is, the fact that I wanted to be a scientist, an astrophysicist, was, hands down, the path of most resistance . . . So I got to see how the world around me reacted to my expression of these ambitions. I’ve known that I’ve wanted to do astrophysics since I was nine years old, a first visit to the Hayden Planetarium . . . ![]() In his youth, deGrasse Tyson was confronted by police on more than one occasion when he was on his way to study stars. After Neil deGrasse Tyson, black astrophysicist & director of the Hayden Planetarium, born in 1958, New York City. ![]()
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