So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size… — 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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