Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, famously said: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” This notion found life beyond Nietzsche’s—which is ironic, his having been rather short and miserable—and it continues to resonate within American culture.
One reason is that…
You should care about space, not because space is cool, which it is. You should care about space because advances in the space frontier reset what it is for a nation to dream again.
And when you dream about a future that you can enable with science and technology, then an innovation culture takes root in your nation. And when you are part of an innovation culture, what you innovate becomes tomorrow’s economy.
-
Neil deGrasse Tyson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekc3uRPlILU
(via italkapple)
