Neil+Tyson+realscientist


 * [[image:http://sxsw.com/sites/default/files/news/image/Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-body.jpg]] || Claim: Neil Degrasse Tyson is the best example of a scientist.

Evidence: I have a story where Neil meet Carl Sagan and visited his lab. "Who was I back then? I was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist, and somehow the world's most famous astronomer found time to invite me Ithaca in upstate New York, and spend a Saturday with him. I remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bus stop and showed me his laboratory at Cornell University. Carl reached behind his desk and inscribed this book for me. "For Neil, a future astronomer. Carl." At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number and his home phone number on a scrap of paper and he said, "If the bus can't get through, call me and spend the night at my home with my family." I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon, I learned from Carl the kind of person I wanted to become." Cosmos: A space time Odyssey, Standing Up in the Milky Way. Episode 1.

Reasoning:This story told me how he change. ||