Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — 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
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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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