Thinking Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Americans live in a free country, which allows you to believe what you want. Because you think that something is true does…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson