Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber… — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
![“I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edd/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_accounts_i-do-not-know-when-the-end-of-science-wi_3149729.png)