Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I am embarrassed to admit (don’t tell anybody) that when I first saw the interior doors on the Enterprise slide open automatically… — 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