I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid… We should measure our era by how many people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
