These graduates were so fortunate to have such an inspired speaker/person to speak at their graduation. I just truly wonder how many appreciated this? The buildings that were shown in the video were amazing,.

If people would stop serving "nations" and "leaders" and "gods" and instead would start serving OUR species, thing could be much different.

@jimeppright7862

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't work that way and probably never will given the immutability of human nature.

@AndreiYoLo

4 жыл бұрын

leaders are made to serve nations, chosed by people... to bad people forgot in a way or another.

@mathieuvanleeuwen7127

3 жыл бұрын

'could' , exactly.

I respect this guy SO much

How cool it must be for Neil Degrasse Tyson to speak when you graduate...awesome!!

I'm a History graduate student and I have to say he has an incredible grasp of History. Very revisionist (which is good and not a pejorative in any sense), and I appreciate that.

Dr. Tyson is amazing, wish he had been the key note speaker at my commencement. So motivating are his words.

One of the greatest speeches ever. I watch this from time to time to lift up my spirits and outlook for the future

@kingsleyessegbey1768

3 жыл бұрын

I think I'll do the same...

Absolutely inspirational...

All I can say is the fact that he is correct in everything he said in that speech. Which leads to the relevant question...... How do we take war and money from the list of "drivers" to simply "galvanize" a continuous R&D effort/policy that will always make a difference that will prevent the first one and always generate the latter? Which by the way, is exactly his point.

@selegash

4 жыл бұрын

Joel50PR You may want to watch “Paradise or Oblivion” documentary by The Venus Project or read “The Best That Money Can’t Buy” by Jacque Fresco

I love this man. I dream that I'll be able to meet him one day. Love you Neil deGrasse Tyson

I wish I was there !

In reply to gheorghe cojocaru below: This is not the spot where Kennedy gave his famous speech. I was there, with other students all wearing ridiculous looking Freshman beanies, in Rice Stadium during Freshman Week of 1962. Upper classmen were upset that the speech was given before they got to campus. There was sparse attendance, since Rice had a total of only a few thousand students and its stadium is huge - one of the early Super Bowls was played there. All I remember from the speech was, "Why does man want to go to the moon? Why does Rice play Texas?!" Tensions with Cuba were high back then, and when Kennedy was speaking a small plane flew low and directly over the stadium with a banner that said, "Enforce the Monroe Doctrine." You'll never see anything near a president like that again.

How can anyone dislike this!?

This is so inspiring... now I want to study at Rice University :)

I would be absolutely thrilled to have Dr. Tyson speak at my graduation.

Thank you Dr. Tyson for being a great role model and for making the universe exciting and most interesting! Great commencement speech and Congrats on Astroid Tyson!! Thanks for the history of our country's journey to the moon and mars.

@stephenhall2646

2 жыл бұрын

clever guy, outstanding!!!

Is it only me who thinks he sounds more nervous than usual?

@CelestialWoodway

6 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@phondarareach

3 жыл бұрын

Nah i don't think he was really nervous. I could sense a bit effort in his voice, but i think he just gave more breath and support to his speech cause he was speaking to a large crowd of audiences.

@cassamachillah8833

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't have a glass of whiskey

@finbeats

2 жыл бұрын

@@cassamachillah8833 or some may say… a “joint”

@darrenng9828

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he didn't smoke deGrasse before this 😂😂

It’s so nice to discovered in the universes, with the empty hands !

So inspiring

The scientific community prefers robots because they're cheaper, less risky, don't need to come home and able to get a lot more samples done quicker. Niel wants human astronauts because he thinks people need "scientific heroes" to motivate them. I'm unsure if he's right but given the relatively low cost and high potential rewards, i think it's worth funding. We have robots because they're a lot cheaper basically.

If you do this, make a catalogue via a blog. Great idea!

Love from Nagaland, northeast India

Great speech Tyson!!

OMG he was in Houston I live there.

Lots of love from India dear Tyson! You are a president material!!

Sure, thanks!

Is that the same spot ,from were Keneddy gave that famous speach

Because exploration is in our blood. Exploring creates technological advancements and innovations.

I'm not a student at this school, but I loved the message given by Dr. Tyson.

I don’t think people realize he gives the SAME EXACT SPEECH (word for word) EVERY WHERE. He didn’t even bother to change it!

starts at 1:15

Amazing 🎉

Now we’re going to discover more at spaces and universes.

Neat seeing people smile when his name is mentioned. :)

A speaker of legend

Yea, right! That would be great!

This speech indirectly change the way of seeing the future, and the past.

love you tyson

can you please elaborate?

Tyson would disagree with exploration being in our blood. He insists we need war or profit to motivate us to do it, as he spends half this speech saying. "We haven't lost our will, we never had the will we tell ourselves we had" as he says half way in. He also says, rightly i think, that the culture of innovation is probably more important than the spinoff tech it produces. I think we'd do best to invest in more practical science but it'd cost so relatively little to go to Mars, why not go?

He's not against space X at all. In fact he has one of the head of space X on his Startalk podcast. Plus, he's never demeaned any private space enterprises. GAWD DAYM.

I'm going to be late to my own University just to watch this...

Hold on now, that looks like in rise University in Houston Texas

0:59-'A Rice welcome for Neil Degrasse Tyson'

The only reason i'm watching this is because Neil DeGrasse Tyson is in it... I did not even know Rice university was a school.

liked, why so many ads tho bro? unless you are Neil himself, which i doubt i dont think its fair to profit off of that much of our time. then again its your channel and here i am watching it ;) (edit) also they are skippable type, so ill give you credit for that too.

He is an Awesome person!

Neil DeGrasse is certainly one of my heroes, just listening to him and other like Elon Musk bring tears to my eyes realizing the true relevance of life.

But great guy.

It wouldn't cost very much money to go to Mars. We can't tell what we'd find out if we got there but it seems to have more of a chance of finding something interesting than other things we could invest a similar amount of cash in. Tyson often says giving us scientific 'heroes' like manned astronauts will motivate people to innovate and enter science. I tend to think we should invest most of our science budget in more useful things than going to Mars but it'd cost so relatively little, why not?

We have had our exploratory compass taken from us by those who see exploration as escape.

Increased by 10,000 views in the last 4 days. At that rate, in a little over a year it'll have one million.

Actually Diogenes von Sinope, a Greek philosopher was the first one to think of earth as one community, not the Doctors Without Borders organisation. His idea manifested in the Cosmopolitanism ideology during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe.

I am sure there was a lot of mismanagement. Was that 30 years ago when we had surplus?

This video has 35.000 views (as of this moment), the same as the Kennedy speech Tyson was refering to. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

I cliked because of the hat, and then stayed because of the speech

I swear to God he needs to run for president

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

Neil is just so darn likable. I want to give him a hug!

It makes it a relatively tiny amount of money compared to the stuff we burn on other lesser projects. It shows that we can definitely afoard to spend this 0.05% of our taxes and far more on something like NASA which produces such large returns.

Dude. It's an idiom. He's referring to the fact that people don't want to live poor. He's saying "don't want to die poor" for rhetorical reasons, to 'rhyme' with the "don't want to die" motive. I don't see why you're refusing to get that he means "don't want to be poor while alive." Is english not your first language? maybe that could explain it?

18:15 everybody was paying attention to every syllable coming out of Tyson. Leadership exemplified founded on knowledge and most importantly wisdom!

must have gotten alot of views in the past 2 weeks

Rice has so cool commencement speechs

Watch out, we got a badass over here.

I have tried to watch this video for several days with different browsers, quality settings and on different computers but it never loads :(

uh oh, here we go

Actually he states he is agnostic. He even has a youtube video here on it.

Brilliant and funny

"I don't know" is an honest answer. The universe is either one way or the other but that doesn't mean your beliefs are. You can't honestly tell me that there's no question you're agnostic on. What is dark energy and dark matter? These are questions all of us have to be agnostic about. If you don't know calculus, you'll probably be agnostic about calculus questions. If you haven't tasted a food, you'll likely be agnostic about whether you like it. It's possible to honestly not know something.

Objective truth

I heard he wanted to land in India, to trade with it

I’d kill to have had this man speak at my graduation

As much as I adore this guy, I wish he was right, we didn't start taking care of the world since 1970's, it's getting worse by the hour.

We need people like Neil in our goverment.. Neil is my "god".... and when i say god... i mean savior.

And the winner is Gryffindor.

he's right.

Fuckn amazing...I just became 50 points smarter in my IQ...Love this guy

14:33 Holy shi**, what a gazelle in the audience!

does that make it any less of money??????

maybe you missed the point of my old comment. we are spending money on exploring. not as much as we could, but we are in fact spending money to explore.

thats pocket change compared to what a mars mission would cost

I've not been a person that goes out on vacations, but now I have greater reason to do some traveling: A checklist tour where I'm able to shake hands and have a photo with DeGrass Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Krauss, Steve Wozniak, Sam Harris, Michio kaku, AronRa, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elton John, B. Joel, Spielberg. A shame I'm not able anymore to shake hands with Ch. Hitchens, Steve Jobs, Sagan, Darwin, Newton, Faraday, Einstein, Any idea of somebody else that should I know about?

@marujob6619

Жыл бұрын

Jesus

Once u go tyson,,,,"😂 Yea hes bad ass !

He has a great hold of social thinking.

Um, ahh the first Europeans were those who left Scandinavia and basically hop-scotched their way too the North American Content. And yes it was funded to find resources...Money!

@annak29

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Arndts and the "spiritual driver" of finding the "fountain of youth" by Spanish explorers/royalty

Tyson is a great mind. A very gifted intellectual endowed with honesty and humility. He is dead on about the true nature of humans.

You're a smart guy, but I'm finding it difficult to explain to you what Dr. Tyson meant. I think you may be thinking too much into it/over analyzing it. Dying broke doesn't necessarily mean be broke when they die. It means being broke for the rest of their lives until they die. I don't know. I feel like I'm explaining colors to a blind guy.

No, JFK spoke at the Rice Stadium/Football stadium.

@CelestialWoodway

6 жыл бұрын

Two different speeches. Pay attention.

1:59, poor people, sitting in the sun :P

So what if he is? He's an agnostic as other commenters have said. Even if he was, why would that matter? Would it matter if he was a jew or a muslim?

Well I did I share , yay me ;)

Only 100 people per week? Damn, the soviets lost thousands per day for 4 years during WW2...

He is a brilliant man in his own right all I am saying is Without god in your life your I Life is in vain

Who is coming here from English speeches 💪💪💪💪💪💪👍

Frogmarch the members of the Senate and the Congress into an auditorium and lock them in to listen to his wisdom and vision.

Dawkins has one teaching style, Tyson has another. I don't see one as being better or worse than the other. Tyson is more entertaining though.

"No one EVER paid big money just for exploration" "Columbus set sail paid for by Spain just for exploration " Which is it Neil?

@monkeymanchronicles

2 жыл бұрын

It definitely wasn’t big money, the Queen of Spain thought he might die on the journey he might as well have been expendable.

@rolandlastname5532

Жыл бұрын

Queen Isabel of Spain funded Columbus to plant the spanish flag on any newly discovered land, to find a shorter route to India, and to bring back silver. Columbus was driven by science, Isabel by money. Says NDT in more detail in another keynote video. Harari has a similar story about, if I remember correctly, the military expedition of James Cook, who discovered New Zealand, and conquered it.

@Sammasambuddha

Жыл бұрын

@@monkeymanchronicles I used quotes.

@rolandlastname5532

Жыл бұрын

More to the point than my previous comment: both statements are consistent. Queen Isabel paid big money, not for exploration, but with the expectation of getting a return of investment. Columbus set sail, motivated by exploration, ie science.

Because apparently America has “other” priorities now.

You should win the internet just for that.

/continued/ Being unsure but still holding a tentative and uncertain opinion is possible. So is being completely unsure and not holding an opinion. Tyson seems to be the latter of these with regards to god. Since all our beliefs are subject to the problem of induction and our subjective filter, which are usually the reasons people claim to be 'agnostic' in the former, 'Dawkins scale,' sense of the word, I don't see why that definition exists; It applies to everything so adds no information.