Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — 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
For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate… — 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 a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
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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