Humans Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson