The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I… — 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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