Deep Thoughts with Neil deGrasse Tyson | StarTalk

we’ve known as educators that
astrophysics can be a gateway science to
other Sciences so I submit to you
whether or not you embrace the universe
because you’re enchanted by it I can say
that in a free capitalist democracy
innovations in science technology
engineering and math the STEM fields
will be the engines of the growth of
tomorrow’s economy and on the assumption
that you don’t want to die poor at some
point somebody’s gonna have to say let’s
get people interested in science and I
know of no greater seductive force than
the science of the universe itself so
whether your interests are derived from
the raw needs of the economic stability
of our nation or whether you share my
ambitions for turning the universe into
our backyard both sides of that serve
not only our need to explore something
that may be genetically encoded in our
DNA but it also can do very well for the
economy and these are what drive me
daily to decode the mysteries of the
universe and share them with all who
will listen