When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Around the world, varying belief systems lead to political differences that are not always resolved peacefully. The power and beauty of physical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Other unrelenting skeptics might declare that “seeing is believing”—an approach to life that works well in many endeavors, including mechanical engineering, fishing,… — 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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