"I'm not I don't care about nature or nurture. What I care about is that whatever you are, you know, you can improve it," he says. "Most of what parents do is they spend the first years of the kids life teaching them to walk and talk." And then the rest of their life tell them to shut up and sit down,. But no, they're not. These are the results of experiments they've been doing. To discover the operations of nature. If you happen to leave an egg up on the counter and a little toddler, because you're making breakfast and a toddler is reaching up, you say, no, don't touch that. He's saying
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.