I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If that's how you want invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify—a multiverse, for instance, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.” — 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
![“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand]…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b6/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ass_does-it-mean-if-you-don-t-understand-som_2207378.png)
