In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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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