--- title: "11 Imagine Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson" description: "11 Imagine quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Plus more from Neil deGrasse Tyson and more Imagine sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_cosmos_imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because_2975856.png" --- > [Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because-the-reality-of-nature-is-far/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_cosmos_imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because_2975856.png) > [So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/so-maybe-part-of-our-formal-education-should-be-training-in-empathy/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_arithmetic_so-maybe-part-of-our-formal-education-sh_1095270.png) > [Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/nothing-is-a-thing-it-s-nothing-so-i-can-imagine-a-place-where-there/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_i-can_nothing-is-a-thing-it-s-nothing-so-i-can_1888385.png) > [Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/imagine-a-world-in-which-we-are-all-enlightened-by-objective-truths/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/915/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_enlightened_imagine-a-world-in-which-we-are-all-enli_2356468.png) > [Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/chimpanzees-are-an-evolutionary-hair-s-width-from-us-now-imagine-a/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/508/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_animal_chimpanzees-are-an-evolutionary-hair-s-w_2806507.png) > [So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/so-much-of-what-we-understand-comes-from-knowing-what-something-is/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3f/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_figures_so-much-of-what-we-understand-comes-from_3111572.png) > [No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/no-astrophysicist-would-deny-the-possibility-of-life-i-think-we-re/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f09/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_alien_no-astrophysicist-would-deny-the-possibi_3208917.png) > [Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/humans-aren-t-as-good-as-we-should-be-in-our-capacity-to-empathize/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/256/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_animals_humans-aren-t-as-good-as-we-should-be-in_1412495.png) > [Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/now-imagine-a-world-in-which-everyone-but-especially-people-with/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/112/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_arise_now-imagine-a-world-in-which-everyone-bu_549632.png) > [Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/imagine-a-life-form-whose-brainpower-is-to-ours-as-ours-is-to-a/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/605/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_achievement_imagine-a-life-form-whose-brainpower-is_2282246.jpg) > [Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/our-planet-has-been-around-only-for-four-and-a-half-billion-years-let/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_billions_our-planet-has-been-around-only-for-four_2916059.png) ## Other authors on Imagine ## More by Neil deGrasse Tyson > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-don-t-want-to-go-into-space-because-of-war-i-think-we-would-if-it/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/quantum-physics-fluctuates-all-the-time-but-now-the-fluctuations-are/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-the-movie-the-stars-above-the-ship-bear-no-correspondence-to-any/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-pacific-is-the-best-toilet-for-satellites/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/informed-ignorance-provides-the-natural-state-of-mind-for-research/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/if-you-seek-only-easy-problems-to-solve-then-ultimately-there-ll-be/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-caricature-of-science-is-that-we-hold-tight-to-the-theories-we/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 therefore adds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/new-generations-of-humans-inherit-the-acquired-discoveries-of/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-ve-said-multiple-times-that-the-world-s-first-trillionaire-is-going/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [ They \[scientists of centuries past\] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-on-god-only-from-the-lonely/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/we-explore-our-environment-more-than-we-are-compelled-to-utter-poetry/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/you-can-t-have-people-making-decisions-about-the-future-of-the-world/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-surrounds-you-it-s-not-something-that-you-can-step-aside-step/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-idea-that-god-resides-in-the-unknown-is-what-philosophers-call/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/everybody-s-got-money-for-vacation-time-look-at-how-much-we-all-spend/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagine/neil-degrasse-tyson/#itemlist", "name": "11 Imagine Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because-the-reality-of-nature-is-far/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_cosmos_imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because_2975856.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_cosmos_imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because_2975856.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_cosmos_imagination-alone-is-not-enough-because_2975856.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can…” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. 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