Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's better to understand something than to memorize something. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there. — 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 greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water… — 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