For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that… — 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
“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
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each… — 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
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
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
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
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
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of… — 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
“even a scientist can’t help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss. How else… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and… — 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
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
“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
No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. — 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
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.” — 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
