Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world.… — 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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