Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Meaning of Life to a “Six-and-Three-Quarter”-Year-Old Boy

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Meaning of Life to a “Six-and-Three-Quarter”-Year-Old Boy
"Part of being a kid is to explore the world around you"


Tyson made it clear that the meaning of life isn’t something you find, but rather what you create.

“You manufacture it for yourself and for others,” Tyson continued. “So when I think of ‘meaning’ in life, I ask, ‘Did I learn something today that I didn’t know yesterday, bringing me a little closer to knowing all that can be known in the universe?’”

Tyson then goes on to offer a lovely stream of advice — which could be followed at any age — including:

“To think brings you closer to nature. To learn how things work gives you power to influence events. Gives you power to help people who may need it — to help yourself and your trajectory. So when I think of the meaning of life, that’s not an eternal and unanswerable question — to me, that’s in arm’s reach of me everyday.”

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