Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science’s skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time. — 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
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. — 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
