--- title: "15 Curious Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson" description: "15 Curious quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Plus more from Neil deGrasse Tyson and more Curious sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curiosity_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-2479502_2479502.png" --- > [No one is dumb who is curious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curiosity_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-2479502_2479502.png) > [Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratulating-people-who-have/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_congratulations_curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratu_2858858.png) > [In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curious-who-change-the-world/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_change_in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curio_715834.png) > [No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-the-people-who-don-t-ask-questions/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2b/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ask-questions_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-the-people_974885.png) > [The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-limits-on-your-enlightenment-come-not-from-the-age-you-stopped/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/141/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_age_the-limits-on-your-enlightenment-come-no_95013.png) > [Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/kids-are-born-curious-about-the-world-what-adults-primarily-do-in-the/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_about_kids-are-born-curious-about-the-world-wh_332473.png) > [I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-m-often-asked-by-parents-what-advice-can-i-give-them-to-help-get-2/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b62/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_advice_i-m-often-asked-by-parents-what-advice-c_2377067.png) > [As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/as-an-educator-i-try-to-get-people-to-be-fundamentally-curious-and-to-2/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9f/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curious_as-an-educator-i-try-to-get-people-to-be_3115495.png) > [I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-would-teach-how-science-works-as-much-as-i-would-teach-what-science/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17d/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_21st-century_i-would-teach-how-science-works-as-much_480261.jpg) > [These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/these-are-two-different-exercises-one-of-them-is-you-don-t-know-and-i/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curious_these-are-two-different-exercises-one-of_1574376.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/there-is-always-a-place-i-can-take-someone-s-curiosity-and-land-where/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_always_there-is-always-a-place-i-can-take-someo_1893821.png) > [The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-problem-is-not-scientifically-illiterate-kids-it-is/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d8/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_about_the-problem-is-not-scientifically-illite_1379740.jpg) > [Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/curiosity-is-unknown-all-adults-were-once-kids-and-once-curious-but/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_adults_curiosity-is-unknown-all-adults-were-onc_1379106.jpg) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-don-t-care-what-town-you-re-born-in-what-city-what-country-if-you/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_about_i-don-t-care-what-town-you-re-born-in-wh_1483605.png) > [As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/as-an-educator-i-try-to-get-people-to-be-fundamentally-curious-and-to/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/817/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_against_as-an-educator-i-try-to-get-people-to-be_1610303.jpg) ## Other authors on Curious ## More by Neil deGrasse Tyson > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-don-t-want-to-go-into-space-because-of-war-i-think-we-would-if-it/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/quantum-physics-fluctuates-all-the-time-but-now-the-fluctuations-are/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-the-movie-the-stars-above-the-ship-bear-no-correspondence-to-any/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-pacific-is-the-best-toilet-for-satellites/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/informed-ignorance-provides-the-natural-state-of-mind-for-research/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/if-you-seek-only-easy-problems-to-solve-then-ultimately-there-ll-be/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-caricature-of-science-is-that-we-hold-tight-to-the-theories-we/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/new-generations-of-humans-inherit-the-acquired-discoveries-of/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-ve-said-multiple-times-that-the-world-s-first-trillionaire-is-going/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [ They \[scientists of centuries past\] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-on-god-only-from-the-lonely/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/we-explore-our-environment-more-than-we-are-compelled-to-utter-poetry/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/you-can-t-have-people-making-decisions-about-the-future-of-the-world/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-surrounds-you-it-s-not-something-that-you-can-step-aside-step/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-idea-that-god-resides-in-the-unknown-is-what-philosophers-call/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/everybody-s-got-money-for-vacation-time-look-at-how-much-we-all-spend/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/curious/neil-degrasse-tyson/#itemlist", "name": "15 Curious Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one is dumb who is curious.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curiosity_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-2479502_2479502.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curiosity_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-2479502_2479502.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_curiosity_no-one-is-dumb-who-is-curious-2479502_2479502.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No one is dumb who is curious.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratulating-people-who-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_congratulations_curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratu_2858858.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_congratulations_curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratu_2858858.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_congratulations_curious-that-we-spend-more-time-congratu_2858858.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curious-who-change-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_change_in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curio_715834.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_change_in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curio_715834.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_change_in-the-end-it-s-the-people-who-are-curio_715834.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one is dumb who is curious. 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