Cracked Up

[A]dults are not all they're cracked up to be.  And most of them are wrong most of the time.  This can be quite revelatory for a kid - often launching them on a personal quest of exploration, rather than of Q&A sessions with their parents.

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958-), American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator, when asked, "If you could impress one thing on young people today, what would it be?", 13 November 2011


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