I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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