World Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We need more science in the world. Train me.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

— 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

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies…

— 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

Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I…

— 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

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson